A major vulnerability, dubbed Downfall, has been found lurking in most Intel chips designed over the past decade, and if cybercriminals find a way to exploit it, a lot of people could be in trouble.
This is the conclusion of cybersecurity researcher named Daniel Moghimi, who works at the University of California, San Diego, as well as at Google (as a Senior Research Scientist), who last year discovered a way for programs and apps to read data belonging to other apps - data they’re not supposed to be able to read. As explained, modern processors have a feature called “register buffer” which stores some data in order to run certain operations faster. That data can include, for example, a password to a banking service.
