Intel was sued for Meltdown and Spectre bugs

Intel is currently facing multiple litigations due to underlying vulnerabilities in the CPU. According to the theguardian report, courts in the three states of California, Oregon, and Indiana have received charges against Intel. These three are large-scale class actions for several reasons, including Intel’s delay in disclosing the underlying vulnerabilities in these CPUs / months after consumers were affected, and the subsequent decline in computer performance caused by security patches. The lawsuit’s report states that due to Intel’s patch lead to performance decline of PC may be as high as 50% to 30%.

But on this point, Intel has said that the impact of their vulnerability solution is “high-intensity load” and will not affect the average user’s use.

For now, the underlying vulnerability was officially announced on Wednesday, so Intel may face more prosecutions. Just as Apple released deliberately slow down the old iPhone models news, suffered a series of litigation in many countries the same.

Intel said 90% of affected chips will be patched by the end of this week, and companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple will also release updates immediately to mitigate the effects of specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

Intel CPU vulnerabilities derived from the security issues have spread to the world, almost all of the mobile phones, computers, cloud computing products, Windows, Linux, macOS, Amazon AWS, Google Android are on the move, these two vulnerabilities are the more leveled access to system-level memory, So may result in the protection of passwords, sensitive information disclosure. However, at present, there has not been any real-world attack yet. All the deductions come from the native code simulation.

Reference: theguardian