Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoCPU firmware exploits are incredibly rare, if there even are any that exist beyond proof-of-concept. The chances of getting an infected CPU from this is so unlikely it’s practically impossible.
db2@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You forget that the CPU has a nanny CPU built in these days.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Which, again, is an incredibly unlikely attack vector unless you have some government secrets on your computer. And chances are that any attack through the IME or PSP is trying to do an implant into the UEFI/BIOS and not the processor itself.