As with Inception, OS-level microcode fixes are already available, but AMD may likewise take a few months to release new firmware versions with the fixes incorporated. Related Stories.

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This is according to The Register, who recently spoke with Christiaan Beek, a cybersecurity researcher from Rapid7, who claims to have created a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for such ransomware.

For example, Thor Larholm at PiVX points out that microcode utilities for CPUs are available from both Intel and AMD, complete with source code. This could be used to corrupt the CPU, causing a ...

The condition PLA evaluates microcode conditionals. As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go ...

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