CISA: Microsoft Releases Guidance for the BlackLotus Campaign

Microsoft has released Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus Campaign. According to Microsoft, “[t]his guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus.” An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.

CISA urges users and organizations to review the Microsoft Blog Post for more information, and apply necessary detection, recovery, and prevention strategies.