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‘Bioskits’ Join Ranks of Stealth Malware

08

Jun

2012

We have seen many discussions of the MyBios “Bioskit” discovered at the end of 2011. MyBios was the first malware to successfully infect the Award BIOS and survive the reboot. It was first discovered by a Chinese security company; many other security vendors published detailed analyses after that.We have seen a lot of samples targeting […]

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Trojan.Bioskit.1 infects BIOS

12

Sep

2011

In the first days of September a remarkable malware sample fell nto the hands of Doctor Web’s virus analysts. At first it seemed that the malicious program dubbed Trojan.Bioskit.1 carried a standard Trojan horse payload to infect the MBR and download something from the network. However, a more detailed analysis revealed that it also incorporated […]

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BIOS threat is showing up again!

09

Sep

2011

There are more and more known viruses that infect the MBR (Master Boot Record). Symantec Security Response has published a blog to demonstrate this trend last month. However, we seldom confront with one that infects the BIOS. One of them is the notorious CIH appeared in 1999, which infected the computer BIOS and thus harmed a […]

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