Firmware has always been a staple component of computing but has onlyrecently become an active area of attack. This rise of interest in firmwarestems from a variety of factors. First, a series of high profile leaksfrom 2013 to 2016 (Vault7, HackingTeam, Shadow Brokers) revealed aconsistent trend. Firmware implants and backdoors were some of thego-to tools for the world’s most sophisticated attackers who wanted toevade detection and persist on a host. This is due both to improvementsin the security found at the software and OS layers, making the unguardedfirmware the path of least resistance.