271 mainboards have been exposed to backdoor vulnerabilities and may be hacked!GIGABYTE Quick Release BIOS Repair

Information security company Eclypsium recently issued a warning to Gigabyte motherboard users, naming 271 motherboards sold by Gigabyte that have security vulnerabilities, and the number may reach millions. Eclypsium pointed out that Gigabyte’s software update mechanism is not safe. Simply put, they found an App Center program when analyzing the Gigabyte motherboard, which automatically executes when booting up and connects to a server on the Internet to check whether there is a new firmware download and Installed, but the program does not have any security verification mechanism, which means that it has a back door, allowing the computer to download malware and install it, and then be attacked by hackers. …