"The Internet's Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick"

A team of researchers from the security firms AdvIntel and Eclypsium has announced that a new component of the TrickBot trojan now gives hackers the ability to plant a backdoor in a computer's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Planting malware in the firmware would allow TrickBot to circumvent antivirus detection and software updates, as well as resist operating system reinstalls or the replacement of storage devices. This technique, dubbed TrickBoot, could corrupt a computer's firmware to the point where its motherboard would have to be replaced. This article continues to discuss the persistence of TrickBot, the new firmware-focused feature of TrickBot, what companies should do to avoid falling victim to TrickBot, and what the TrickBoot technique means for firmware hacking. 

Wired reports "The Internet's Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick"