They discover an unknown element in Intel processors that would serve to spy on users
Researchers have discovered an unknown system on Intel processors, which is disabled and could collect system information.
The Unknown World YouTube channel is one of the most absurd on the net, with a host of impressive nonsense. Curiously, it seems that this channel would not be so misguided, in terms of hidden technologies in processors. According to Positive Technologies, Intel processors would hide an undocumented technology. There is no data on this and there is no official document with data. That technology appears to be a logic signal analyzer, which would have the ability to read all the data from a computer.
Secret technology inside Intel processors?
Researchers have given these data difficult to verify. There are many unknowns about this technology, above all, what is the reason and purpose of it.
Positive Technologies indicates that during the investigation they have found something hidden in the Platform Controller Hub of Intel motherboards. The processor would also have something strange. Both systems would be linked by a special system that will allow them to work together.
This technology has been baptized as VISA. This technology would have access to most of the information that is stored in the system memory. Said system would also be collecting all the information from the peripherals.
Researchers initially thought that the VISA function would have the mission of finding possible faults in Intel chips. Researchers have found that this technology could also obtain information from the computer. This is a serious privacy vulnerability and could be used by external attackers.
VISA would be disabled natively in Intel processors that hit the market. It should be noted that researchers have not been able to activate it, since they do not know how to do it. Of course it is the weirdest thing we have heard to date, being something more typical of Unknown World nonsense than being a reality.
Source: Metro
