ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards hit with rootkit

Chinese-speaking hackers are using 2016 malware injected into firmware images for ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards to turn over PCs.

Found by Sednit hunters

Insecurity experts hunting cyber-spy outfit Sednit have discovered the first instance of a rootkit targeting the Windows Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) in successful attacks.

Rootkits for everyone

A team of anonymous developers who created a Linux rootkit that runs on GPUs has come up with a proof-of-concept malware does the same on Windows and say a Mac OS X is nearly ready.