Security News > 2025 > May > Researchers Expose New Intel CPU Flaws Enabling Memory Leaks and Spectre v2 Attacks

2025-05-16 09:08
Researchers at ETH Zürich have discovered yet another security flaw that they say impacts all modern Intel CPUs and causes them to leak sensitive data from memory, showing that the vulnerability known as Spectre continues to haunt computer systems after more than seven years. The vulnerability, referred to as Branch Privilege Injection (BPI), "can be exploited to misuse the prediction
News URL
https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/researchers-expose-new-intel-cpu-flaws.html
Related news
- New Intel CPU flaws leak sensitive data from privileged memory (source)
- Windows NTLM hash leak flaw exploited in phishing attacks on governments (source)
- Interlock ransomware claims DaVita attack, leaks stolen data (source)
- Researchers Demonstrate How MCP Prompt Injection Can Be Used for Both Attack and Defense (source)
- Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again (source)
- Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers (source)
- Researchers Expose PWA JavaScript Attack That Redirects Users to Adult Scam Apps (source)