Users can utilize it to detect rootkit malware
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Jan 27, 2016 23:52 GMT · By Catalin Cimpanu VirusTotal, the best thing for security aficionados since sliced bread, has announced initial support for detecting and then properly analyzing firmware images.
The new feature should come in handy to users who suspect they might be infected with rootkit malware.
Rootkits are a common occurrence in new malware families
In the past years, malware targeting a computer's BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware images has grown in numbers, with the most famous case coming out of the Hacking Team data breach.
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