https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-uefi-bootkit-used-to-backdoor-windows-devices-since-2012/

A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since 2012.

Bootkits are malicious code planted in the firmware (sometimes targeting UEFI) invisible to security software that runs within the operating system since the malware is designed to load before everything else, in the initial stage of the booting sequence.