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Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

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"While Eclypsium says the hidden code is meant to be an innocuous tool to keep the motherboard’s firmware updated, researchers found that it’s implemented insecurely, potentially allowing the mechanism to be hijacked and used to install malware instead of Gigabyte’s intended program."

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Millions of Gigabyte modems

They're called Petabyte modems, SMH

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