This can do things like reveal personally identifiable information, banking information, and of course usernames and passwords.
The potential danger of an attack using these vulnerabilities includes being able to read “secured” memory belonging to a process. Meltdown is a vulnerability for Intel processors while Spectre can be used to attack nearly all processor types. Basically, Meltdown and Spectre are the names for multiple new vulnerabilities discovered and reported for numerous processors. If you’ve been keeping up with computer news over the last few days, you might have heard about Meltdown and Spectre, and you might be wondering what they are and what they can do. UPDATE (as of 1/04/18) : Since the Malwarebytes Database Update, all Malwarebytes users are able to receive the Microsoft patch to mitigate Meltdown. Details on the patches were published here. UPDATE (as of 1/12/18) : Several vendors have produced patches for Meltdown and Spectre, however performance problems dog the fixes.
