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Downfall Vulnerability Affects Millions of Intel CPUs With Strong Data Leak Impact Learn technical details about this newly disclosed security vulnerability, as well as mitigation recommendations from the Google researcher who discovered it.

Google researcher Daniel Moghimi discovered a new vulnerability affecting millions of Intel chip models.

Mitigation is provided by Intel for affected hardware, which includes computing devices based on Intel Core processors from the 6th Skylake to the 11th Tiger Lake generation.

Intel released technical documentation on Gather Data Sampling, the name used by the company to refer to Downfall.

The Downfall vulnerability was first reported to Intel in August 2022 and kept under embargo until it was fixed.

Intel has released firmware updates and recommends that users of affected Intel processors update to the latest version firmware that addresses these issues.

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