Yet another major flaw has been discovered in practically all of Intel’s processors released since 2011, with a new class of discovered vulnerabilities that could allow sensitive information to be stolen from the processor, in an issue likened to the Meltdown and Spectre fiasco.
A number of researchers who found the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws, which affected nearly all iOS and macOS devices, have found more flaws in Intel’s processors. The vulnerabilities used problems with the way processors were designed to enable attackers to acquire data temporarily stored on the processor, including sensitive user data being used for tasks.
Some of those researchers have detailed a new side-channel attack called “ZombieLoad,” which can potentially pull of the same trick of exploiting design flaws in an Intel processor, reportsTechCrunch.
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