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Firmware boot-integrity feature reported by the researchers to protect machines against the attack in its current form.
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On a September 10 podcast, Eclypsium researchers walked from vulnerable signed UEFI shells to Fire Ant binaries wearing EDR agent names. The common thread is verification: a defender can check very little of that stack alone.
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KB5120998 carries 35 quality changes and no security fixes, which puts the real deadline in September. The parts worth testing before then are the taskbar and Start menu rework and the removal of WMIC.
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KB5121003 shipped Secure Boot changes alongside fixes for 400 vulnerabilities. Microsoft now says it is checking whether the same update stops software from running on 24H2 and 25H2.
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The NBU says 279 NERO R-ONE speed cameras are rebadged Russian CORDON PRO.M units with shell access triggered by SMS from hardcoded numbers. Deployment is paused pending an independent audit.
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Birmingham and Durham researchers rewrote a DIMM's configuration chip in software to alias in-use memory, then reached into VBS enclaves, revived blocklisted drivers and killed EDR.
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