Tag: KB5025885

  • Slightly clear the fog around BlackLotus mitigations

    Hi, I’m Helmut Wagensonner, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Despite the detailed information we’ve previously provided about mitigating the UEFI BlackLotus bootkit, it appears there is still considerable confusion surrounding the entire process. What specifically needs to be addressed, and why are manual steps required to activate the mitigations? Understanding BlackLotus and its mitigations…

  • May 2023 cumulative update for Win10/Win11 explained

    Hi all, mitigating the Secure Boot UEFI bootkit using the May 2023 cumulative update still causes misunderstandings at some of my customers.  So I wrote this short article to give you an overview and illustrate how this update works, especially regarding the elemination of the BlackLotus bootkit, covered in CVE-2023-24932. A very detailed description can…