Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have uncovered a serious flaw in Intel processors that could let attackers steal sensitive ...

The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations ...

"[W]e found that speculative execution attacks are indeed possible against MTE, which severely harms the security assurance of MTE," the authors report. "We discovered two new gadgets, named ...

BTI" vulnerability impacts Intel CPUs from the 9th-gen Coffee Lake Refresh onward, meaning almost all Intel systems still in ...

A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature. The ...

The flaws stemmed from a performance feature of modern CPUs known as speculative execution and mitigating them required one of the biggest patch coordination efforts in history, involving CPU ...

DeepSeek has captured the world’s attention this week, with an unexpected release of the more-open AI model from China, for a reported mere $5 million training cost. While there’s lots of buzz ...

When these guesses are wrong, they accidentally open the door for hackers. SLAP (speculative execution via Load Address Prediction) lets attackers access private data, like email content ...

There are two new speculative execution attacks that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students that discovered the vulnerabilities. Named SLAP and FLOP ...

Torvalds's version avoids using the barrier_nospec() API, which prevents speculative execution of some machine code. Speculative execution is a feature of modern CPUs that use branch prediction to ...