Researchers discovered a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in AMD chips that has been there for decades. It’s called a ‘Sinkclose’ flaw.

Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

  • DrDominate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Unless I’m mistaken, the malware isn’t on the CPU. The exploit is CPU, but the firmware is stored on the bios chip. Used motherboards are a potential for having malware on them, but then again they always have been a risk