The exploit allows anyone with local admin privileges to write and push custom microcode updates to affected CPUs. The same Google team has released the full deep-dive on the exploit, including ...

A CPU’s microcode usually lives in read-only memory, and writing the microcode is only one step in the journey. [Bob]’s tool compiles his microcode into files that can be burned into memory ...

The result was 29 microcode operations including logic, arithmetic, load, and store commands — enough to start writing microcode code. The first microcode programs written helped with further ...

Ideally microcode shouldn't be touched ... "Coming from a background in firmware security, I was like, woah, I think I can write some CPU ransomware," Beek told The Register.

First it might help to explain what microcode *is*. The internal hardware in a modern X86 processor does not consume X86 instructions directly. Instead, upon fetching an X86 instruction, the front ...

The discussions inevitably lead to this question: If it’s possible to create highly destructive viruses that render machines useless by damaging the low-level microcode that governs the ...

Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix new hardware vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds ...