Report: Countless PCs vulnerable to newly discovered firmware attack [Update]

After analyzing more than 70,000 Macs, the team at Duo Security uncovered a firmware vulnerability that could affect countless PCs. And although the research was done on Macs, Windows PCs are even more likely to be at risk. Rich Smith and Pepijn Bruienne outlined the flaw in a recently-published blog. The issue concerns Apple’s EFI, or Extensible Firmware Interface, which is the interface responsible for booting and running macOS. Because all subsequent software operations depend fir