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Last updated: August 8, 2026, 6:00 AM ET

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Researchers disclosed a hardware backdoor in VIA C3 and related x86 CPUs, demonstrating a technique to inject code via undocumented microarchitectural paths. Separately, a social engineering attack(https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/ targeted AISI via a fabricated GitHub PR, exploiting trust in maintainer workflows to propose malicious changes.