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Re:Breaking the x86 Instruction Set: how to find undocumente... by jevinskie on Monday September 11, 2017 @12:02PM (#15219515)
Yup, this was done in this years USENIX with AMD microcode. See the exploits that check for magic register values at [0] and the paper at [1].

[0]: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode/tree/master/updates

[1]: http://syssec.rub.de/research/publications/microcode-reversi...

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