Hacking Team's malware uses a UEFI rootkit to survive operating system reinstalls | NEVER TRUST... | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From www.pcworld.com - July 14, 2015 5:04 PM
Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on.

The company developed a tool that can be used to modify a computer’s UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) so that it silently reinstalls its surveillance tool even if the hard drive is wiped clean or replaced.


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