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A well-known researcher from security outfit Chronicle Security has questioned why tech and mainstream media have given blanket coverage to research by the US/Israeli firm Cybereason, which detailed intrusions into a number of telecommunications firms by a Chinese group known as APT10, when the research did not provide any indicators of compromise or accounts from victims.

The principle of the presumption of innocence is well-known: that a person, who is accused of something, is presumed innocent until proven guilty. But that does not seem to hold for the head of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, or the company he heads. And particularly when the accuser is an American.

Processor manufacturer AMD has issued its first detailed statement on the flaws which were claimed last week to be in some of its product lines by the previously unknown Israeli firm CTS Labs.

Security firm Check Point Research has revived the controversy over the flaws reported in some AMD processors by Israel-based CTS Labs last week, by saying that the way publication was done was "very irresponsible".

A company that was asked to review a series of flaws claimed to be in some AMD processors says it recommended to the firm that found the flaws — the previously unknown Israel-based CTS Labs — that it disclose the vulnerabilities through a CERT advisory as is standard practice.

A surge of short-selling of AMD shares preceded the release of information on Tuesday about 13 flaws in some of the company's processors by Israel-based CTS Labs, a report claims.

Security researchers from a previously unknown Israeli company, CTS Labs, have disclosed 13 flaws in AMD processors. All can be taken advantage of only by an attacker who has already gained admin privileges within the system in question.