"Researchers uncover Spectre-like #Intel CPU vulnerability called #BranchScope"
Researchers from four US universities, College of William & Mary, University of California Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Binghamton University, have released a paper which details a new #Spectre like vulnerability that they are calling BranchScope, a new side-channel attack which targets the "directional branch predictor."
They have apparently tested it on Sandy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake processors,… See More
with the attack being launchable without any administrator rights with an error rate of less than 1%.
The researchers are claiming that none of the mitigation put in place for Spectre and #Meltdown will help against BranchScope while Intel obviously claims otherwise.
Source: overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/res…
You can read the paper using the following link if you wish to read it: www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/asplos18.pdf