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ILeakage works similarly to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that gave chip manufacturers so much trouble in 2018. The attack leverages the speculative execution feature of modern...

Researchers have discovered a new and powerful transient execution attack called Inception that can leak privileged secrets and data using unprivileged processes on all AMD Zen CPUs, including the latest models.

Processor manufacturer AMD has issued an advisory about a cross-process information leak in some of its hardware, that it rates to be of medium severi...

Security researchers have discovered a new speculative execution attack called Retbleed that affects processors from both Intel and AMD and could be used to extract sensitive information.

MIT researchers present PACMAN, a new speculative execution attack that bypasses the software security primitive called pointer authentication on Apple’s M1 processor.

MIT CSAIL scientists have created a PACMAN attack methodology that leverages both software and hardware attacks to steal data from Arm-based processors, including the Apple M1.

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iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 11:05 US researchers find flaw affecting processors made since 2011 Shares Ashish Venkat: "We show how an attacker can smuggle secrets through the micro-op cache by using it as a covert channel.” Supplied Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering computer science department have discovered vulnerabilities earlier in the speculative execution chain of a processor than the Spectre flaw which was made public in January 2018. S...

By Juha Saarinen on May 2, 2021 6:03AM Billions of computers vulnerable. Researchers at the universities of Virginia and California in the United States have devised  new Spectre-style hardware attacks that make it possible to steal data when processors fetch commands from their micro-ops caches. The new vulnerability affects billions of computers and other devices worldwide, and the researchers say it will be much harder to fix than the speculative ex...