New ‘CacheOut’ Attack Targets Intel CPUs

Researchers have identified a new speculative execution type attack, dubbed CacheOut, that could allow attackers to trigger data leaks from most Intel CPUs. The more serious of the two bugs, revealed Monday, is rated medium severity by Intel, who said fixes for both flaws are on the way. The more...

New 'CacheOut' Attack Leaks Data from Intel CPUs, VMs and SGX Enclave

Another month, another speculative execution vulnerability found in Intel processors. If your computer is running any modern Intel CPU built before October 2018, it's likely vulnerable to a newly discovered hardware issue that could allow attackers to leak sensitive data from the OS kernel,...