<ul><li>Researchers at ESET have discovered Bootkitty, the world's first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux.</li><li>Bootkitty was uploaded to VirusTotal and appears to be a proof-of-concept bootkit, lacking the capability to infect all Linux distributions other than Ubuntu.</li><li>No evidence of actual infections in the wild has been found so far.</li><li>The discovery suggests that threat actors may be actively developing a Linux version of an unkillable bootkit, similar to those found in Windows machines.</li></ul>

Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux

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