New Type of Side-Channel Attack Impacts Intel CPUs and Allows Data Leakage

Researchers discovered a new kind of side-channel attack that affects several versions of Intel CPUs and enables data exfiltration. Attackers could leak the data through the EFLAGS register. The discovery was made by researchers at Tsinghua University, the University of Maryland, and a computer lab run by the Chinese Ministry of Education. How Is the […]

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