Thunderbolt devices can infect MacBooks with persistent rootkits

Macworld
Dec 23, 2014, 12:21 pm879 pts
Attackers can infect MacBook computers with highly persistent boot rootkits by connecting malicious devices to them over the Thunderbolt interface. The attack, dubbed Thunderstrike, installs malicious code in a MacBook’s boot ROM (read-only memory), which is stored in a chip on the motherboard. It was devised…

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