Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Exploitation Reporting

TLP AMBER ANNOUNCEMENT: 

On 2 January 2018, British newspaper The Register published an article describing a design flaw present in all of Intel’s modern processors. The bug is a possible vulnerability in the kernel page table isolation feature. The concept concerns with how microarchitecture design makes speculative references in memory and how they may be exploited by an attacker to read kernel address space layout randomization. This report provides situational awareness for our members. Stay cognizant for updates as major technology companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and VMware respond. Intel has already responded stating that the allegations of these exploits are false and that any exploit is not unique to its chip design...READ MORE 

Wapack Labs has cataloged and reported on vulnerability exploitation in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.   


This TLP AMBER report is available only to Red Sky Alliance members.