Intel Alder Lake source code leaked
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In the past two years, hacker attacks have continued. For example, Nvidia suffered a ransomware attack by a hacker group earlier this year. After the internal system was compromised, more than 1TB of data was leaked, including drivers, design drawings, and firmware. In the middle of this year, another hacker obtained a large amount of data from AMD and tried to extort it, but AMD refused to pay the ransom, and the leaked information about the Zen 4 architecture processor was later confirmed to be true.
Recently, Twitter users @vxunderground and @glowingfreak revealed that after a major hack, the source code of Intel Alder Lake (including information such as BIOS and related chipsets) was leaked, and the size of the compressed file reached 2.8GB (5.86GB after decompression), and the code base is very large.
Image: Intel
It is unclear whether the data and documents came from Intel or its partners such as OEMs, as one of the documents mentioned “Lenovo Feature Tag Test Information.” The source code for Intel Alder Lake BIOS has been shared online on Github but it was taken down earlier. If these data and files contain sensitive material, it is uncertain whether they can be used to develop some exploit programs, thus posing a security risk.
Some media have contacted Intel to understand the situation, but Intel has not responded to the matter for the time being.
