Moonbounce is a persistent malware that can survive drive formats and OS reinstalls

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A new malware has been making the headlines over the past few days. The rootkit, that has been identified as Moonbounce, is a persistent malware that can survive drive formats and OS reinstalls.

This is not a regular trojan or virus that impacts Windows, it is a sophisticated bootkit that targets your motherboard's firmware, United Extensible Firmware Interface, commonly abbreviated as UEFI. This allows the malware to survive changes made to the hard drive or operating system.

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What is the Moonbounce malware? - gHacks Tech News