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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware


Baseboard management controller vulnerabilities make remote attacks possible.

“Both issues provide unprecedented persistence power across significant Supermicro device fleets including [in] AI data centers,” Matrasov wrote to Ars in an online interview, referring to the two latest vulnerabilities Binarly discovered. After analyzing the patch Supermicro issued in January in response to the Nvidia discovery, Matrasov said, he discovered additional ways the vulnerability could be exploited with even more powerful effects. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.

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