The Indirector attack discovered by University of California San Diego researchers focuses on the indirect branch predictor of a CPU. Five years after the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks rocked the ...

AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

Modern Intel processors, including chips from the Raptor Lake and the Alder Lake generations are susceptible to a new type of a high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack dubbed 'Indirector,' ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...

If you recall, some benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5"-based desktop processors were well behind the expected performance gains compared to the previous generation. Those expectations were ...