Moonbounce is a persistent malware that can survive drive formats and OS reinstalls

25-Jan-22

Over the last few days, a new malware has been making waves. Moonbounce, the rootkit that was discovered, is a persistent malware that can withstand drive formatting and OS reinstalls.

It is a sophisticated bootkit that targets your motherboard’s firmware, United Extensible Firmware Interface, commonly abbreviated as UEFI. This is not a typical trojan or virus that affects Windows; it is a sophisticated bootkit that targets your motherboard’s firmware, commonly abbreviated as UEFI.

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