We have heard recently that Microsoft was not a fan of Thunderbolt as they consider that it offers insecure direct access to a PC’s RAM, which could lead to all kinds of shenanigans. Now security researcher Björn Ruytenberg has demonstrated an undetectable and rapid hardware attack which easily bypasses Intel’s Thunderbolt security features and which allows an attacker to copy memory from a locked and encrypted PC for example or easily bypass the lock screen.

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