Gigabyte hacker spills details on next generation AMD Epyc Genoa series

Confidential details about AMD’s upcoming EPYC 7004 “Genoa” server CPU series, supposedly stolen by threat actors from Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Gigabyte, appear to have been posted online.

Following last week’s ransomware attack, the threat actors revealed their loot contained all kinds of documents from various hardware manufacturers, including an American Megatrends debug document, an Intel “Potential Issues” document, an “Ice Lake D SKU stack update schedule”, and an AMD revision guide.

It appears Gigabyte either didn’t engage with the ransomware operators or was unable to agree on a ransom figure.

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