It’s 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre

April 10, 2024 at 04:32PM VU Amsterdam academics discovered that Intel CPU cores are still vulnerable to Spectre attacks, despite mitigations. They created InSpectre Gadget, which can find code snippets to bypass protections, even on chips with Spectre defenses. The tool helped develop Native Branch History Injection exploit, allowing access to sensitive data. AMD and … Read more