A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of devastating supply chain attacks that could inject malicious updates that have been signed with company signing keys that are trusted by a huge base of end-user devices, a researc.
Intel has launched a probe into the leak of Intel Boot Guard private keys exposed by the Money Message extortion gang following its hack of Taiwanese PC hardware manufacturer MSI in March, according to BleepingComputer.
While Intel is still investigating the incident, the security industry is bracing itself for years of potential firmware insecurity if the keys indeed were exposed.
The security of hundreds of MSI products is at risk due to hackers leaking private code signing keys stolen during a data breach last month. The signing keys allow