AMD has been sued by Rosen Law Firm, because the processors are vulnerable by Specter, specifically, for saying that their processors did not suffer from this vulnerability at first, when they were.

Specter and Meltdown are being a headache for all processor manufacturers and without a doubt, the thing will not end, no matter how much patch and many future promises they make. First it was Intel, which received a lawsuit due to these vulnerabilities found by a team of Google experts, but now a lawsuit has fallen to AMD, in this case for Specter, to which its processors are vulnerable. This lawsuit in this case is due to the fact that AMD initially said that its processors were not affected by Specter, when they were affected by this vulnerability.

The lawsuit has come from the Rosen Law Firm, an international company that protects the rights of investors, who have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all buyers of Advanced Micro Devices' products. The claim establishes that the claim is due to materially false and / or misleading statements and / or the following points were not disclosed:

(1) a fundamental security flaw in Advanced Micro's processor chips makes them susceptible to hacking

(2) As a result, Advanced Micro's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the real details came to light, investors suffered damage.

This demand is based on the first statements of the company, where it was said that none of the three variants of Specter affected the processors. After more information appeared and it was discovered that they were indeed vulnerable to Specter, AMD was forced to say that they are immune to Meltdown, but vulnerable to all three variants of Specter. In addition, they claim that the vulnerabilities are very complex to exploit, because hackers should adapt a malware for this attack and to the specific hardware.

Source: Fudzilla