Announced at the BlackHat conference in August 2018, a backdoor in x86 VIA C3 Nehemiah chips made in 2003:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/x86-hidden-god-mode,37582.html
A four byte command gives you root access.
Of course, there's no way that stuff like this exists in more modern processors... :)
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