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Chris Szewczyk

Intel 'Downfall' CPU vulnerability exposes sensitive data

Intel Core i5 11400F processor

A scary new CPU security vulnerability has been revealed. It's called Downfall, and it affects Intel chips beginning with 6th Generation Skylake processors through to 11th Gen Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake.

Downfall was discovered by Google research scientist Daniel Moghimi (via The Register), who posted a webpage dedicated to the issue. Intel has posted about the issue in a security advisory, INTEL-SA-00828.

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