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Critical UEFI vulnerabilities found in Gigabyte motherboards — allow attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install firmware backdoors

Firmware security research company Binarly has discovered four new vulnerabilities affecting the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) on multiple Gigabyte motherboards. The vulnerabilities ...
PC World

Hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable to Secure Boot attack

Crack open your desktop PC for a second. No rush, I’ll wait. Are you looking in there? Good. Do you see a Gigabyte motherboard? Okay, now peek under the CPU cooler. I’ll wait again. Okay, see that CPU ...
Bleeping Computer

Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable to UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot

Dozens of Gigabyte motherboard models run on UEFI firmware vulnerable to security issues that allow planting bootkit malware that is invisible to the operating system and can survive reinstalls. The ...
GIGAZINE

Hundreds of Acer, Dell, GIGABYTE, Intel, and Supermicro devices have had their UEFI Secure Boot platform keys leaked, putting them at risk of system compromise

A research team from security company Binarly reported a vulnerability called 'PKfail' that allows arbitrary code execution at boot time on more than 200 devices sold by Acer, Dell, GIGABYTE, Intel, ...
Bit-Tech

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R

We reset the BIOS to its default values, and set both Prime95 torture test and 3DMark06 running to load the CPU, memory and graphics subsystems as much as possible, then we left it for a day to see ...