An unknown individual allegedly deliberately disclosed the BIOS source code for Intel Alder Lake using an anonymous 4chan image board, and a copy of the material was subsequently posted on GitHub. The files are compressed into a 2.8GB ZIP archive, once unzipped, the data amount is 5.86GB. The authenticity of the materials has not yet been confirmed.
The archive contains many files and tools designed to create BIOS / UEFI firmware for the Intel Alder Lake platform and related chipsets. The source of the data remains unknown, but a document mentions Lenovo.
Although the authenticity of the data is confirmed, it is still unclear whether sensitive information can be used to develop exploits, especially if not obtained directly from Intel, but from a third-party source. Similar materials are likely to be available from most motherboard manufacturers and OEM partners, and Intel should remove potentially problematic fragments from the dataset before sending the sources to third-party vendors. But any classified information therefore has such a status that even small parts of it can become a source of serious vulnerabilities, especially if there is a connection with security components such as the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
Last year the forwards twice violated Gigabyte’s internal resources for redemption. In June this year, the RansomHouse group tried receives a ransom from AMD for refusing to publish 56GB of stolen confidential data, but the Reds have not paid. Hacking NVIDIA in February it turned into a curiosity: the company itself produced cyber attack about intruders.
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