WannaCry Ransomware: In May 2017, it infected more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries. The loss estimate reached USD 4 billion as per news released by CBS.

Rick of Compromise and data theft: Hackers can exploits flaws in processors manufactured by Intel, ARM, and AMD. They can run code on the affected machines, revealing sensitive data by bypassing the processor’s built-in protections.

The vulnerability is hazardous for multi-tenant systems like the public cloud, which hosts several users on the same server.

Protection: Update Operating System. Microsoft, Linux distributions including CentOS and Ubuntu released patches to mitigate the risk.