Martin Smolár
ESET heads to RSA to present UEFI security threats
ESET announced its participation in the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco from May 6–9, 2024. At the event, ESET Malware Researcher Martin Smolár will present critical vulnerabilities and long-...
BlackLotus UEFI bootkit can bypass UEFI Secure Boot on fully patched systems
ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of a UEFI bootkit that is capable of bypassing an essential platform security feature – UEFI Secure Boot. The functionality of the bootkit and its...
ESET Research unscovers vulnerabilities in Lenovo laptops
ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed three vulnerabilities affecting various Lenovo laptop models. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities would allow attackers to deploy and successfully execu...
ESET researchers discover bootkit for cyberespionage
ESET researchers have discovered a previously undocumented real-world UEFI bootkit that persists on the EFI System Partition (ESP). The bootkit, which ESET has named ESPecter, can bypass Windows Drive...