Latest Intel CPUs impacted by new Indirector side-channel attack
July 1, 2024 at 01:40PM New BTI attack called Indirector targets modern Intel CPUs, specifically Raptor Lake and Alder Lake generations. It exploits flaws in Indirect Branch Predictor and Branch Target Buffer to manipulate speculative execution, enabling data extraction. Researchers at UC San Diego discovered and presented the attack, proposing mitigations like IBPB and BPU … Read more