Microsoft Finds Backdoor in Huawei Laptops That Could Give Hackers Access

The Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop presented at a press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 25, 2018. Microsoft recently revealed how it found a backdoor vulnerability within Matebook laptops. JOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images

Researchers at U.S. tech giant Microsoft recently revealed that they discovered a backdoor in certain Huawei laptop models that allowed unprivileged users to gain access to all laptop data.

This vulnerability is similar to the technique DoublePulsar, a malware tool leaked by the hacker group The Shadow Brokers in early 2017. It had infected more than 200,000 computers running on Microsoft Windows software within a few weeks.