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New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors
2024-10-29 05:53

More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to...

Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
2024-10-18 14:48

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that...

AMD internal data reportedly offered for sale
2024-08-26 16:45

Second sensitive info theft claimed by the same crims since June Digital data thieves have reportedly breached AMD's internal communications and are offering the allegedly stolen goods for sale. …

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs
2024-08-13 03:14

The bug allows malicious software and rogue privileged users with access to the operating system kernel to run code in System Management Mode, a highly privileged execution environment present in x86 processors from Intel and AMD. SinkClose is unique to AMD. SMM sits below the kernel and hypervisor, as well as applications, in that the management mode has unrestricted access to and control of the machine. ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it? AMD's latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback.

New AMD SinkClose flaw helps install nearly undetectable malware
2024-08-09 16:56

AMD is warning about a high-severity CPU vulnerability named SinkClose that impacts multiple generations of its EPYC, Ryzen, and Threadripper processors. The vulnerability allows attackers with...

Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale
2024-06-18 23:01

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AMD investigates breach after data for sale on hacking forum
2024-06-18 21:26

AMD is investigating whether it suffered a cyberattack after a threat actor put allegedly stolen data up for sale on a hacking forum, claiming it contains AMD employee information, financial documents, and confidential information. "We are aware of a cybercriminal organization claiming to be in possession of stolen AMD data," AMD told BleepingComputer in a statement.

New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses RowHammer Defenses on AMD CPUs
2024-03-28 14:44

Cybersecurity researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new variant of the RowHammer DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) attack that, for the first time, successfully works against AMD Zen 2...

New ZenHammer memory attack impacts AMD Zen CPUs
2024-03-25 16:00

Academic researchers developed ZenHammer, the first variant of the Rowhammer DRAM attack that works on CPUs based on recent AMD Zen microarchitecture that map physical addresses on DDR4 and DDR5 memory chips. The ZenHammer attack was developed by researchers at public research university ETH Zurich, who shared their technical paper with BleepingComputer.

Attackers Could Eavesdrop on AI Conversations on Apple, AMD, Imagination and Qualcomm GPUs
2024-01-18 19:00

Researchers at cybersecurity research and consulting firm Trail of Bits have discovered a vulnerability that could allow attackers to read GPU local memory from affected Apple, Qualcomm, AMD and Imagination GPUs. In particular, the vulnerability-which the researchers named LeftoverLocals-can access conversations performed with large language models and machine learning models on affected GPUs.