You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs!

[Kongo]

Content source

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/11/cpu_ransomware_rapid7/

RSAC If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware.
The senior director of threat analytics for the cybersecurity company got the idea from a bad bug in AMD Zen chips that, if exploited by highly skilled attackers, would allow those intruders to load unapproved microcode into the processors, breaking encryption at the hardware level and modifying CPU behavior at will.

You think ransomware is bad? Wait until it infects CPUs

RSAC: Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it

www.theregister.com

 

[lokamoka820]

Another article:

https://www.makeuseof.com/ransomware-attack-cpu-be-prepared/

 

[Zero Knowledge]

This will happen and probably is right now but for intelligence gathering or surveillance by the men in black but for ransomware? I'm not sure.