The conventional wisdom when you think you’ve picked up some nasty Windows malware is to format the disk and start from scratch, and that’s enough to defeat most hacks. However, it won’t help with a new piece of malicious code floating around hacking forums. Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a new UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus.

Source: Hot Hardware – Sinister BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit For Windows Goes Up For Sale On Hacking Forum