BranchScope is the latest vulnerability for CPUs made by Intel

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BranchScope works similar to Spectre. They both target the directional branch predictors. BPUs or Branch Prediction Units are used to improve the performance of pipelined processors but now are causing a vulnerability. The BPU of a processor has two main components; they are a branch target buffer ...

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