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UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

By Ars Technica

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In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully updated Windows 11 systems. With the industry-wide chain-of-trust mechanism subverted, the malware was able to…