Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims

November 9, 2023 at 05:28PM A lawsuit has been filed against Intel by PC buyers who claim the company failed to address faulty chip instructions that led to the Downfall vulnerability. The lawsuit alleges that Intel knew about the susceptibility of its AVX instruction set to side-channel attacks in 2018 but only fixed the defect … Read more