US EditionIntel data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off once again
- Researchers at ETH Zurich discovered a new class of Intel CPU vulnerabilities called Branch Privilege Injection in 2025.
- The flaws bypass six-year-old Spectre v2 defenses and affect Intel processors from 7th generation Kaby Lake to current models.
- The exploit leaks sensitive data including kernel secrets and passwords with peak rates of 5.6 KB/sec and 99.8% accuracy.
- Intel released microcode updates mitigating these flaws with performance impacts ranging from 1.6% to 8.3%, and acknowledged ongoing Spectre challenges.
- The findings highlight persistent hardware security risks, suggesting that Spectre-related vulnerabilities will continue to require coordinated mitigation efforts.
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New Vulnerability Affects All Intel Processors From The Last 6 Years - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
A newly discovered class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors, termed Branch Predictor Race Conditions (BPRC), allows attackers to systematically extract sensitive data from the cache and random-access memory (RAM) of other users sharing the same hardware. Affecting all Intel processors released in the past six years-including those in consumer devices and cloud server infrastructure-the vulnerability exploits speculative execution technologie…
Researchers Expose New Intel CPU Flaws Enabling Memory Leaks and Spectre v2 Attacks
Researchers at ETH Zürich have discovered yet another security flaw that they say impacts all modern Intel CPUs and causes them to leak sensitive data from memory, showing that the vulnerability known as Spectre continues to haunt computer systems after more than seven years. The vulnerability, referred to as Branch Privilege Injection (BPI), "can be exploited to misuse the prediction
Once again, a serious security problem has been discovered in Intel processors. Researchers have found a way to bypass the previous protective measures against the desired Spectre vulnerability. Almost all current Intel CPUs are affected. (Continue reading)
Intel processors hit by new security vulnerability: What you need to know
A team of computer scientists from ETH Zurich has uncovered a new security vulnerability that affects all Intel processors. This issue is linked to a technology called speculative execution, which allows processors to predict upcoming instructions and execute them in advance to speed up processing. While this boosts performance, it also opens the door for […] The post Intel processors hit by new security vulnerability: What you need to know appe…
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