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BIOS under attack: hackers increasingly focus on boot threats (cybernews.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] LOLseas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh man, I think you may have given me the clue I needed. On my second MSI X570s Max Edge WiFi board this year, because of what I believed was a UEFI/BIOS Rootkit. Strange things keep surviving complete wipes/reinstalls of my OS. Secureboot disabled/enabled, doesn't matter. Plagued (among other annoyances) with some 10s sound clips that randomly play, network usage monitor showing I'm downloading half a TB a day, uploading a 1/4th of that, etc. ClamAV finding some Unix.Ransomware.eCh0raix process running (first install)...

Could you have solved my headache? Switch motherboard vendors altogether? Is my board affected? I built this thing less than a year ago, and money is tight. Need to stay on X570 chipset, too much invested in this AM4 build.