German antivirus testing firm AV-Test has identified 139 samples of malware that seem to be early attempts at exploiting the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs.
“So far, the AV-Test Institute discovered 139 samples that appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities. CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754,” the company wrote on Twitter.
The company has posted SHA-256 hashes of several samples that a check on Google’s VirusTotal indicates is being detected by some antivirus engines.
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Source: ZDNet