Your Mac Is No Longer Safe: Thunderbolt Ports Let Badass Rip Off Data In Minutes

Mac devices are now prone to hackers because of a “physical” flaw that takes place in Thunderbolt ports. In such a case, the attacker is said to access your data without having any permission. What’s more, this still happens when your Mac is protected by a password and the drive already gets encrypted.

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Security researcher Bjorn Ruytenberg has shed a light on the problem, so let’s take a closer look at it. First things first, no Mac machine is proof against this serious vulnerability. Models between 2011 and 2020 – which support Thunderbolt and USB-C ports – all come under attack.

According to Ruytenberg, the controller chip inside Intel’s Thunderbolt ports has triggered off the vulnerability. Seven different types of vulnerabilities were discovered by Ruytenberg, and the researcher worked on several methods to exploit them. Hackers can keep the attack behind closed doors, so most users are unaware of it, not to mention that it’s hard to find a shred of evidence.

For those having a Mac, all your need to do is to keep potential badasses far away from your computer because the attacker won’t trap you into a phishing link or malware but he needs to have physical contact with the device. Once he gets a chance, it’ll take him only a few minutes to break in and steal the data.

Having said that, levels of the risk mainly depend on the current operating system. If you’re running Linux or Windows in Bootcamp, your computer is no doubt fully vulnerable. Ruytenberg said it’ll be partially vulnerable once you boot it into macOS, thanks to a bunch of additional security features updated by Apple.

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