Security News > 2020 > June > Intel Adds Anti-Malware Protection in Tiger Lake CPUs

Intel's upcoming class of mobile CPUs, code named "Tiger Lake," will feature a long anticipated security layer, called Control-flow Enforcement Technology, which aims to protect against common malware attacks.

"Intel CET delivers CPU-level security capabilities to help protect against common malware attack methods that have been a challenge to mitigate with software alone," said Tom Garrison, vice president and general manager of Client Security Strategy and Initiatives with Intel, in a Monday post.

"These types of attack methods are part of a class of malware referred to as memory-safety issues, and include tactics such as the corruption of stack buffer overflow and use-after-free."

Intel's upcoming Tiger Lake CPUs are the first to come equipped with Intel CET, which will battle control-flow hijacking attacks by adding two types of protection.

These types of code-reuse attacks occur when short code sequences that end in specific call and jump instructions are located and chained into a specific order, in order to execute attackers' payloads.

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