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Firmware flaws in over 200 Gigabyte motherboards could lead to undetectable malware (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

However, due to implementation flaws in Gigabyte's firmware, attackers who gain elevated privileges – whether through local access or a remote exploit – could compromise SMM and ultimately gain full control of the system.

So you first need to get access via different security issues. For second I thought this firmware bug somehow allowed remote access.