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Millions of Gigabyte motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor flaw - see if you're affected

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Millions of motherboards built by Gigabyte were shipped out with a firmware backdoor that could have been abused to drop malware to the devices, experts have warned.

In a blog post, security firm Eclypsium said that it recently spotted “backdoor-like behavior within Gigabyte systems in the wild.”

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