1.0 Introduction
Recently, Microsoft has released Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus Campaign. According to Microsoft, “[t]his guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus.”
2.0 Impact
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.
3.0 Affected Products
PCs with Microsoft Windows OS installed
4.0 Recommendations
MyCERT urges users and organizations to review the Microsoft Blog Post for more information, and apply necessary detection, recovery, and prevention strategies.
Kindly refer to : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/04/11/guidance-for-investigating-attacks-using-cve-2022-21894-the-blacklotus-campaign/
Generally, MyCERT advises the users of this devices to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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5.0 References