SedNit, CCC, Kaspersky and ESET

Re: https://firmwaresecurity.com/2018/09/27/apt28-malware-lojax-uses-uefi-rootkit/ and https://firmwaresecurity.com/2018/08/05/bluehat-v18-first-strontium-uefi-rootkit-unveiled/

Sednit UEFI malware is back in the news, because of the recent CCC video, some are hearing about it for the first time, and because Kaspersky Lab is tweeting about it, confusing people that the news came from Kaspersky instead of ESET. Instead, I wish Kaspersky’s GReAT team would be giving some new news about their UEFI research, as hinted from an upcoming BlueHat Israel talk:

[..]For the past year, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) extracted and processed thousands of UEFI dumps, applying anomaly analysis and code similarity techniques in order to find the “things that lurk in the shadows”[…]

https://firmwaresecurity.com/2019/01/01/costin-raiu-kaspersky-lab-the-things-that-lurk-in-the-shadows/

 

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