Claim

TStark USES UEFI bootkit

TStark's group was observed experimenting with a UEFI bootkit on a firewall, although the attempt failed and bricked the device.

Episode
EP 174 — Pacific Rim
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
92% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Andrew Brandt
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“They were really trying to figure out if they could get this bootkit to run on a firewall”

Andrew Brandt · offsets 75771–75860

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:59:46.082354+00:00

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