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.
The countermeasure, which compares the time and voltage at which circuits are activated, is being implemented in 12th Gen Intel Core processors.
A suspected Iranian threat actor known as UNC3890 is gathering intel that could be used for kinetic strikes against global shipping targets.
The state-sponsored group particularly targets organizations working on behalf of the Uyghurs, Tibet, and Taiwan, looking to gather intel that could lead to human-rights abuses, researchers say.
The North Korean APT is using a fake job posting for Coinbase in a cyberespionage campaign targeting users of both Apple and Intel-based systems.
The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed targeting job seekers with malware capable of executing on Apple Macs with Intel and M1 chipsets
A group of researchers has revealed details of a new vulnerability affecting Intel CPUs that enables attackers to obtain encryption keys and other secret information from the processors