Intel Corporation designs processors and platforms whose firmware, microcode, and hardware flaws can affect system security, isolation, and data protection.
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Intel Corporation is a semiconductor designer whose processors, chipsets, firmware, and platform components underpin many servers, PCs, and embedded systems. In security news, the tag usually concerns vulnerabilities or mitigations affecting this hardware and its supporting software, rather than “intel” meaning threat intelligence.
Security impact can arise below the operating-system boundary: speculative-execution flaws may expose data through side channels, while firmware or platform-management weaknesses can enable privilege escalation or persistence in some configurations. Intel security advisories, operating-system updates, BIOS or UEFI releases, and microcode updates (small processor-control patches) therefore form a coordinated remediation chain. Administrators should inventory affected processor generations and firmware versions, apply trusted updates where applicable, and assess performance or compatibility trade-offs. Researchers and defenders may also need to distinguish hardware limitations from software bugs when investigating suspected exploitation.
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The threat group's curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.
Researchers built an inexpensive device that circumvents chipmakers' confidential computing protections and reveals weaknesses in scalable memory encryption.
Lapse of critical information sharing and mass furloughs at CISA are just some of the concerns.
Researchers have demonstrated an attack that can break through modern Intel and AMD processor technologies that protect encrypted data stored in memory.
The threat group's goal is to help Pyongyang assess risk to its troops deployed in Ukraine and to figure out if Moscow might want more.
The chip maker's Tiber Secure Federated AI service creates a secure tunnel between AI models on remote servers and data sources on origin systems.
The PC Security Stack Mappings project improves the security posture of corporate PCs by aligning each of the security features found in vPro PC and Core Ultra chips with the techniques described in MITRE's ATT&CK.
A highly targeted cyber-intelligence campaign adds fuel to the increasingly complex relationship between the two former Soviet states.
Though the information regarding the exploits is limited, the company did report that Intel-based Mac systems have been targeted by cybercriminals looking to exploit CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309.
The most popular office software suite in China actually has two critical vulnerabilities, which allowed hackers the opportunity for remote code execution. Time to patch.
Data thieves heisted the HSA provider's data repository for 4.5 million people's HR information, including employer and dependents intel.
Intel works closely with academic researchers on hardware flaws and coordinates efforts with other vendors to roll out fixes for emerging vulnerabilities. That wasn't always the case.
"Indirector" targets a speculative execution component in silicon that previous research has largely overlooked.
The old, but newly disclosed, vulnerability is buried deep inside personal computers, servers, and mobile devices, and their supply chains, making remediation a headache.
Experiment demonstrates how AI can turn the tables on cybercriminals, capturing bank account details of how scammers move stolen funds around the world.
The improper input validation issue in Intel Neural Compressor enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems.
The semiconductor manufacturing giant's security team describes how hardware hackathons, such as Hack@DAC, have helped chip security by finding and sharing hardware vulnerabilities.
Russia's government is pretending to be other governments in emails, with an eye toward stealing strategic intel.