Amd also faces a class action lawsuit over specter

Law firm Rosen Investment Rights has confirmed that AMD is facing a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who bought shares in the company between February 21, 2017 and January 11, 2018, all because of the Specter vulnerability.

AMD sued over Specter vulnerability

This law firm alleges that AMD has made false statements claiming that its Ryzen processors are not affected by the Specter vulnerability. To all this, it must be taken into account that Google's Project Zero team, which has been the discoverer of Meltdown and Specter, discovered the Specter vulnerability in early June, so AMD would not be lying when saying that its processors are not vulnerable. before said date.

It should also be considered that disclosing the vulnerability before a solution exists would be worse for users since it would leave them more exposed to hackers who are aware of the security problem.

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From what seems like the big problem for AMD would have been the claim that its users are at "near zero risk" after they announced that they would be releasing firmware updates to fix potential Specter variant two related issues on their processors.

So far only AMD processors have been shown to be vulnerable to Specter variant one, in the case of the second it could not be demonstrated, and the third variant (Meltdown) only affects Intel processors, something very important since it is the most serious of all. We can only wait to see how this whole story ends.

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