microcode

Black Hat·50 min

• Black Hat
• Malware
• Date: 2025
• Location: Black Hat

Industry experts analyze emerging threats surrounding Decompiler Internals: Microcode.

hardwear.io·38 min

• HARDWEAR
• Malware
• Date: 2025
• Location: Hardwear

Peter Bosch

Security researchers examine technical aspects of Under the hood of a CPU: Reverse Engineering the P6 microcode | Peter Bosch.

DEFCON Switzerland·31 min

• DEF CON
• Wireless
• Date: 2024
• Location: Defcon

Kaya Ercihan · Antonio Vazquez Blanco

Kaya Ercihan details Toward Verifiable Microcode: Reversing AMD Zen5 Update.

Recon Conference·1 hr 13 min

• RECON
• Recon
• Date: 2024
• Location: Recon

Engineers explore architecture and security mechanisms for Recon Brussels 2018 - Decompiler internals: microcode.

Main Stage·37 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2023
• Location: Las Vegas

Mathias Krog · Christian Skovsende

Reverse engineers Intel CPU microcode on Goldmont cores, achieving persistent userspace microcode patching on Linux to create hardware backdoors in x86 execution.