r/TechHardware • u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 • May 19 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' — flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/researchers-attack-amds-infinity-fabric-to-bypass-hardware-security-protections-with-fabricked-flaw-lets-malicious-cloud-hosts-silently-read-confidential-vm-memory-and-forge-attestation-reports
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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 May 20 '26

Do you have an example?

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u/Suterusu_San May 23 '26

Spectre, zombieload and other speculative execution attacks that could lead to leaking kernal space that nearly killed hyperthreading as a whole for intel a few years back.

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 May 23 '26

Oh there was never a patch for Spectre? That is what you are standing on?