IBM X-Force on the CPU Vulnerability

At IBM Security our team has been heads down on this vulnerability for some time - analyzing it, exploiting it and working to outline the risk profile in the enterprise. Although we had to scramble today for the accelerated public announcement today I want to thank all of our personnel around the world that were on-mission as they they are every day - from our Services teams and our X-Force Command Center staff to the X-Force RED team that worked tirelessly on analysis over the holidays on exploits and analysis. I also want to make a nod to both of the teams that brought this vulnerability forward to the industry - thank you.

So here is the initial point of view from the IBM X-Force and there will be much more to come over the next few days.

https://securityintelligence.com/cpu-vulnerability-can-allow-attackers-to-read-privileged-kernel-memory-and-leak-data/