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Hacking Team Spyware preloaded with UEFI BIOS Rootkit to Hide Itself

Hacking Team is known for its advanced and sophisticated, also known as, which is loaded with lots of zero-day exploits and have ability to monitor the computers of its targets remotely. The affected victims are yet unknown. Researchers say the rootkit malware is only able to target UEFI BIOS systems developed by Insyde and AMI vendors, used by the majority of computer and laptop manufacturers. The rootkit analysis done by Trend Micro researchers was only made possible due to the Spyware source code leaked online in the data dumps.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/hacking-uefi-bios-rootkit.html

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