Fractured Backbone - Breaking Modern OS Defenses with Firmware Attacks

Explore the growing threat of firmware attacks and vulnerabilities in system firmware during this 50-minute Black Hat conference talk. Delve into recent disclosures of Vault7 Mac EFI implants and discover newly uncovered vulnerabilities in UEFI, Mac EFI, and Coreboot that could lead to stealth and persistent firmware implants. Learn how these attacks can potentially break modern OS defenses as presented by security experts Andrew Furtak, Mikhail Gorobets, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk, and Yuriy Bulygin.