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Thunderspy: More Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to Attacks

May 11, 2020

The new attack method, dubbed Thunderspy, was discovered by Björn Ruytenberg of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The researcher has discovered a total of 7 vulnerabilities related to improper firmware verification, weak device authentication, the use of unauthenticated device metadata, downgrade attacks, unauthenticated controller configurations, SPI flash interface issues, and the lack of Thunderbolt security when using Boot Camp, the tool that allows users to install Windows on Apple computers.

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