Linux Mint Forums Today: Disable 'Secure Boot', It Doesn't Improve Security, It's Just a Microsoft Obstacle to GNU/Linux Users
This was hours ago:
They also mention MOK; many people experience issues with that in recent days.
Also in the news today:
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HybridPetya Mimics NotPetya, Adds UEFI Compromise
A newly identified ransomware strain called HybridPetya has appeared on the VirusTotal platform.
Uploaded in February 2025, the sample showed under filenames suggesting a link to the destructive NotPetya outbreak.
The malware shares substantial similarities to Petya and NotPetya but adds new capabilities that make it stand out, including the ability to compromise UEFI-based systems.
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UEFI Secure Boot circumvented by novel HybridPetya ransomware
HybridPetya's installer delivers a bootkit that enables not only configuration loading and encryption status checking but also the creation of a file that monitors disk clusters that have already been encrypted, with encrypted disk detection triggering a ransom note seeking $1,000 worth of Bitcoin as payment, a report from ESET revealed. Other iterations of HybridPetya have leveraged the Howyar Reloader UEFI app remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7344, to evade UEFI Secure Boot, noted researchers, who also discovered the new ransomware's decryption key reconstruction capabilities.