Those ring -3 exploits on your system at that level can do anything - even place a root kit containing key loggers that is then invisable to the OS virus scanner and thus steal passwords to your banking apps and send them off to some scum that empties you account of your hard earned $$ - that was one demonstrated use of an older ME vulnerability and this years vulnerabilities are worse according to some. Just keep in mind that an flawed ME implementation can be silently compromised at -3 ring level (that's before BIOS/EFI starts).
The fact that OEM's actually released updates on out of warranty systems probably highlights the severity of this issue.īut if some people don't care about the security of their system That's their choice. As a result, twice in 2017 Intel has pushed out fixes to ME that OEMs have picked up and released for their systems, many of which are no longer supported or under warranty. And there have been others reported in previous years.
ME has had some serious security issues discovered and reported to Intel this year. It's an old post but as others can find this thread via google search, as i did, the above flawed comment needs an answer. If I were you, I would ignore this if my BIOS worked fine.
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