found in the wild no evidence of actual infections in the wild
you know I shouldn't be disappointed by blatant lies in headlines with the state of journalism in current year but I still kinda am.
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Thanks for saving my time.
You are disappointed because it doesn't have to be this way.
You can find it in the wild without finding evidence of infection.
I think in this context found in the wild means that the sample was found in the wild, just maybe not running.
I'm disappointed, but this is a good thing.
So, they are talking about a bootkit embedding itself into the uefi firmware, then the graphics show a malicious bootloader that resides in the EFI partition that can be removed by formatting.