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How the Major Intel ME Firmware Flaw Lets Attackers Get ‘God Mode’ on a Machine

December 7, 2017

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Researchers at Black Hat Europe today revealed how a buffer overflow they discovered in the chip’s firmware can be abused to take control of a machine – even when it’s turned ‘off.’

A recently discovered and now patched vulnerability in Intel microprocessors could be used by an attacker to burrow deep inside a machine and control processes and access data – even when a laptop, workstation, or server is powered down.

Researchers who discovered the flaw went public today at Black Hat Europe in London with details of their finding, a stack buffer overflow bug in the Intel Management Engine (ME) 11 system that’s found in most Intel chips shipped since 2015.

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