Academics Discover New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named BranchScope

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A team of academics from four US universities have discovered a new side-channel attack that takes advantage of the speculative execution feature in modern processors to recover data from users' CPUs. Speculative execution is the same CPU function exploited by the Meltdown and Spectre flaws ...

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