Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
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What happened
Ars Technica security RSS feed covering active exploitation of critical enterprise vulnerabilities, firmware and boot-security weaknesses, state-sponsored and ransomware activity, supply-chain risks, and emerging threats from autonomous AI agents. Several reports describe zero-days, persistent backdoors, sandbox escape, malware deployment, and attacks against Microsoft Exchange, Windows, routers, motherboard controllers, and software infrastructure.
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