Meltdown and Spectre – Updated Advice
Malware making use of Meltdown and Spectre, the two CPU vulnerabilities highlighted back in January, is now being seen in the wild. Security researchers are reporting they have seen over 140 malware samples based on the proof of concept code. Whilst there have not been instances of Meltdown and Spectre actually being leveraged to compromise a system, it is a timely reminder that miscreants will take published security vulnerabilities and weaponise…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 9th February 2018
Source: NCSC Reports
