Chinese Hackers Deploy Malware in Firmware Images of Certain Motherboards

CosmicStrand is a new and sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit that has been attributed to an unknown Chinese-speaking hacker. In a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab, researchers came up with the name CosmicStrand for this attack.  Earlier, however, malware analysts at Qihoo360 discovered a variant of the threat known as Spy Shadow Trojan that was similar […]

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