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Do you have a gigabyte motherboard? You may be secretly downloading a virus

Do you have a gigabyte motherboard?  You may be secretly downloading a virus

More than 270 different models are affected by the vulnerability, you must act as soon as possible.

Motherboard manufacturers are under pressure. In the past few days, we also reported that many Ryzen 7000 processors burned due to excessive voltage, now here is the latest source of the error. The security hole in Gigabyte motherboards was discovered by Eclypsium experts, who also published the full list of affected models. More than 270 different variants are affected, on both AMD and Intel sides.

GIGABYTE motherboards automatically update their firmware, and this is where attackers can step in and packet hijacking. Businesses are at much greater risk than individual users, as attackers must be on the same network to compromise devices. However, if they succeeded, they could cause very serious damage.

With the help of the UEFI rootkit, they can take control of the device even before it simply boots up, so reinstalling the operating system and formatting backups is also not a solution to the problem. To fill the holes as soon as possible, Gigabyte has already released a beta BIOS update for Intel 700/600 and AMD 500/400 motherboards, but since we are talking about beta software, this carries some risks in itself.

If you want to be sure, you should look for and disable the Application Center download and install function in the BIOS, and also set the BIOS password. Full analysis of Eclypsium and list of affected motherboards They can be found here.

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