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Sleeping Bouncer Vulnerability Impacts Motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and ASUS

ID: 6733e416-5618-5cd9-aef1-095a8c7c1f00

STIX ID: report--6733e416-5618-5cd9-aef1-095a8c7c1f00

Feed Name: cybersecurityNews.com

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-12-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Tushar Subhra Dutta

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Riot Games researchers disclosed "Sleeping Bouncer," a critical pre-boot DMA/IOMMU initialization flaw in motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock that can allow attackers to inject and hide malicious code during the earliest boot seconds before OS defenses activate; vendors have published BIOS updates and CVEs and Riot's Vanguard will block unpatched systems from competitive play.

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