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Hackers publish MSI private keys, enabling signed malware

TechSpot

Security researchers have confirmed that private keys for MSI products and Intel Boot Guard are loose in the wild. Hackers could use the keys to sign malware under the guise of official MSI firmware. Intel Boot Guard is a critical security check for when computers first start up, and the. Read Entire Article

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BlackBerry partners with Intel to detect cryptojacking malware

Tech Republic Security

The partnership leverages Intel's CPU telemetry data to more easily detect abnormal system behavior that indicates illicit cryptocurrency mining.

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Sophisticated hackers snuck sleeper malware into nearly 30,000 Macs

The Verge

There’s a popular stereotype that Apple’s computers are largely immune to malware. It was literally just one week ago that Objective-See security researcher Patrick Wardle published a story about the first piece of malware discovered in the wild targeting Apple Silicon, and now we have two. Red Canary (@redcanary) February 19, 2021.

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Intel will debut malware-fighting technology in Tiger Lake mobile CPUs

TechSpot

Intel's CET will first become available with Tiger Lake mobile CPUs that are expected to drop in the second half of 2020. So far we've seen a few Tiger Lake ULV variants popping up here and there, and we know they'll offer PCIe 4.0 support, along with.

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Ransomware Detection at Chip Level? Yes, Says Intel

SecureWorld News

Intel recently announced it is adding hardware-based ransomware detection and remediation to its new 11th gen Core vPro processors. Intel claims that “hardened PCs enable best practices for ransomware defense,” and that this security improvement will be a game changer in defending against ransomware.

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Microsoft and Intel are working on a project that converts malware into images for easier identification

TechSpot

Building on an earlier joint effort, the two are now attempting to tackle malware classification as a computer vision task through an approach known as static malware-as-image network analysis (STAMINA).

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Microsoft is using Intel CPU tech to thwart crypto-mining malware

TechSpot

We’re seeing the cycle repeat itself once again, this time with attackers hot on the trail of one of tech’s latest trends, cryptocurrency.

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