Major Motherboard Flaw Exposes Early-Boot Security Risks and Cheating Vulnerabilities
TL;DR
A new UEFI firmware vulnerability affects motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI, allowing early-boot DMA attacks due to a failure to properly enable IOMMU protections during startup. This flaw could let attackers access or modify system memory before the OS loads, emphasizing the importance of applying firmware updates to mitigate the risk.
- New UEFI Flaw Enables Early-Boot DMA Attacks on ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI Motherboards The Hacker News
- Vanguard Security Update: Closing the Pre-Boot Gap Riot Games
- UEFI Vulnerability in Major Motherboards Enables Early-Boot Attacks SecurityWeek
- Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors Tom's Hardware
- Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters The Verge
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