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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Notable quote:

“It's going to be nearly undetectable and nearly unpatchable.” Only opening a computer's case, physically connecting directly to a certain portion of its memory chips with a hardware-based programming tool known as SPI Flash programmer and meticulously scouring the memory would allow the malware to be removed, Okupski says.

Let's hope a microcode or BIOS update can prevent it from happening in the first place.

Original source:

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54863

Relevant links:

https://ioactive.com/event/def-con-talk-amd-sinkclose-universal-ring-2-privilege-escalation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSp38lFQeRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg&t=2s

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-amd-sinkclose-flaw-helps-install-nearly-undetectable-malware/

(I found the Bleeping Computer article more informative and concise than the Wired one.)