Malware continues to take advantage of a legacy component of modern systems designed in the 1980s. Despite the cyber threat landscape continuing to evolve at an ever-increasing pace, the exploitation of the classic BIOS boot process is still very much a threat to enterprises around the world. Furthermore, since malware that tampers with the boot process (aka bootkits) execute before the operating system, such compromises often persist even after incident responders think the incident has been remediated. This post details the challenges FireEye faced examining boot records at scale and our solution to find evil boot records in large enterprise networks.[…]
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