AMD's security cracked to modify the silicon's behaviour at will. This capability also undermines AMD's secure encrypted virtualization & root-of-trust security mechanisms on Ryzen, Threadripper, & Epyc CPUs. https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/09/2021244/how-to-make-any-amd-zen-cpu-always-generate-4-as-a-random-number #security #hacking #amd #ryzen #threadripper #epyc
it.slashdot.orgHow To Make Any AMD Zen CPU Always Generate 4 As a Random Number - SlashdotSlashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch that forces the chips to al...
