{"id":143894,"date":"2022-08-13T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/microsoft-blocks-uefi-bootloaders-enabling-windows-secure-boot-bypass"},"modified":"2022-08-13T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T06:24:40","slug":"microsoft-blocks-uefi-bootloaders-enabling-windows-secure-boot-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/microsoft-blocks-uefi-bootloaders-enabling-windows-secure-boot-bypass","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft blocks UEFI bootloaders enabling Windows Secure Boot bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-blocks-uefi-bootloaders-enabling-windows-secure-boot-bypass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers to execute unauthorized code in an early stage of the boot process, before the operating system loads.<\/p>\n<p>Vendor-specific bootloaders used by Windows were found to be vulnerable while the status of almost a dozen others is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Threat actors could exploit the security issue to establish persistence on a target system that cannot be removed by reinstalling the operating system (OS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers to execute unauthorized code in an early stage of the boot process, before the operating system loads. Vendor-specific bootloaders used by Windows were found to be vulnerable while the status of almost a dozen others is currently unknown. Threat actors could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}