We May Soon See Malware Leveraging the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

Security researchers are seeing an ever-increasing number of suspicious file samples that are experimenting with the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Security researchers from AV-TEST, Fortinet, and Minerva Labs have detected 139 suspicious files related to the aforementioned CPU vulnerabilities. Experts won’t rule out that some samples are from malware authors looking for ways to weaponize the PoC code for malicious actions. Not all samples are uploaded on VirusTotal or other malware repositories, meaning professional malware authors are most likely playing with the code as well.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/we-may-soon-see-malware-leveraging-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities/