According to reports, the Taiwanese computer hardware company MSI (Micro-Star International) was recently joined to the list of victims of a new ransomware gang that goes by the name “Money Message.” The perpetrators of the cybercrime say that they have taken source code along with other critical material from the company’s network. MSI is a […]
Technology business Dell has its headquarters in the United States. It is in the business of creating and selling computers as well as repairing and supporting related goods and services. Dell is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, which also owns the corporation. It has come to light that the Dell BIOS has four newly discovered […]
Recently, Lenovo’s new BIOS updates fixes the high-severity vulnerabilities impacting hundreds of devices in several models (Desktop, All in One, IdeaCentre, Legion, ThinkCentre, ThinkPad, ThinkAgile, ThinkStation, ThinkSystem). The potential impact may include Information disclosure, privilege escalation and denial of service. The List of Vulnerabilities Includes: CVE-2021-28216 – Fixed pointer vulnerability in TianoCore EDK II BIOS […]
Four BIOS-related vulnerabilities have recently been discovered, according to a new security alert from Lenovo. Threat actors can use these flaws to allow information exposure, denial of service, or privilege escalation. The first of the bugs, identified as CVE-2022-40137, affects the WMI SMI Handler function and affects the Lenovo Desktop, Desktop AIO, Smart Edge, Smart […]
Five new security weaknesses have been disclosed in Dell BIOS that, if successfully exploited, could lead to code execution on vulnerable systems, joining the likes of firmware vulnerabilities recently uncovered in Insyde Software’s InsydeH2O and HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Tracked as CVE-2022-24415, CVE-2022-24416, CVE-2022-24419, CVE-2022-24420, and CVE-2022-24421, the high-severity vulnerabilities are rated 8.2 […]
Intel security teams announced the detection of two critical vulnerabilities in a wide variety of products and whose exploitation would allow threat actors to perform privilege escalation attacks on affected devices. Tracked as CVE-2021-0157 and CVE-2021-0158, the flaws received a score of 8.2/10 according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). In the report, the […]
This chain of vulnerabilities is critical and has a cumulative CVSS score is 8.3/10. Eclypsium security researchers have discovered four major security vulnerabilities in Dell SupportAssist’s BIOSConnect feature. In their report, researchers revealed that the bugs could allow attackers to carry out remote code execution within the BIOS of affected devices. The cumulative CVSS score […]
Lenovo security teams announced the detection of three vulnerabilities affecting the BIOS of approximately 60 models of laptops and notebooks. In its notice, the company claims to be working to release BIOS updates for more than 32 ThinkPad models and expects to begin rolling out the patches on July 28. The first of these flaws […]
PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service condition. The issues, reported to Dell by researchers from SentinelOne on Dec. 1, 2020, reside in a firmware update driver named “dbutil_2_3.sys” that comes pre-installed […]
Basic BIOS emulator/debugger for Unicorn Engine. Written to debug the XEOS Operating System boot sequence. Usage: Usage: unicorn-bios [OPTIONS] BOOT_IMG Options: –help / -h: Displays help. –memory / -m: The amount of memory to allocate for the virtual machine (in megabytes). Defaults to 64MB, minimum 2MB. –break / -b Breaks on a specific address. […]
There might be a time where you picked up an old laptop and had a bios password lock enabled but no clue to reset it. Here we have listed 3 methods on bypassing your BIOS password. Method 1: Reset via CMOS battery Open the backside of your laptop or side panel of your PC. Locate […]
As per ethical hacking professionals, Nbtstat is a network tool that is used to check the running TCP/IP connections. Nbtstat list all the network connections that are used in Windows OS. This tool is pre-installed in Windows you no need use any external software to run nbtstat. It’s an effective tool to determine all the […]
Let’s get real. For at least once in our life, we have all gone through the hassle of searching around the web to find the right key to Enter to boot into BIOS (UEFI for all the new folks) settings for us to tinker with. As you may have already found out, Entering BIOS utility or […]
Intel has addressed vulnerability in the configuration of several CPU series that allow an attacker to alter the behavior of the chip’s SPI Flash memory, a mandatory component used during the boot-up process, information security researchers said. According to Lenovo analysts, who recently deployed the Intel fixes, “the configuration of the system firmware device (SPI flash) could […]
Short Bytes: Very often curious Windows users search the phrase “What is Last BIOS Time in my Task Manager?” Well, it’s the time taken by your computer’s UEFI firmware to initialize your hardware before the Windows OS starts booting. By paying a close attention to your PC’s boot-up process, one can tweak some UEFI settings […]
Is it a bug or is it a backdoor? Lenovo, and possibly other PC vendors, is exposed to a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection. If the claims made by Dmytro Oleksiuk at Github are correct, an attacker can “disable flash write protection and infect platform firmware, disable Secure Boot, [and] bypass […]
A vulnerability has been detected in the BIOS chips found in millions of computers which could leave users open to hacking.