A new piece of ransomware can encrypt a drive’s EFI boot partition. (Image source: ESET Security) A new form of ransomware, dubbed HybridPetya, is able to bypass UEFI Secure Boot and can install malware on a system’s EFI boot partition. This means that HybridPetya can hold a computer hard drive ransom by preventing it from booting into Windows. It appears …
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