The Embedded Systems Threat Matrix has been unveiled as a new cybersecurity framework by MITRE to improve the defenses of critical embedded systems, according to SecurityWeek.
Intel and AMD have confirmed that some of their processors are impacted by a trio of new low-severity PCI Express flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-9612, CVE-2025-9613, and CVE-2025-9614, according to SecurityWeek.
Threat actors have continued leveraging USB drives to spread the CoinMiner cryptocurrency mining malware as part of an ongoing attack campaign aimed at South Korean workstations, Cyber Security News reports.
Intel's Software Guard Extensions and Trust Domain Extensions, as well as AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging, which are DDR5 CPUs' trusted execution environments, could expose secrets through the new TEE.Fail side-channel attack, reports The Hacker News.
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