New Chinese Malware Found To Be Difficult To Remove From A PC
New Chinese Malware Found To Be Difficult To Remove From A PC
Moonbounce is the new malware found by Kaspersky's Security researchers say it can infect your computer's UEFI firmware. They have suspected APT41, a cyber-espionage group of the creation of the malware.
The Chinese espionage group Moonbounce is linked to the malware Moonbounce.
Unlike other malware and virus, it does not hide in Harddrive or any other secondary memory but hides in the SPI memory of the motherboard. Due to this, the malware remains even if you format your OS or replace the old hard drive.
Moonbounce is not the first one to attack the SPI memory there is other malware such as ESPectre, FinSpy’s UEFI bootkit, LoJax, and MosaicRegressor.
Once it is deployed on the user's computer it can install other viruses and malware too.