"Computer Scientists Unveil Novel Attacks on Cybersecurity"
A multi-university and industry research team led by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, discovered two novel attacks targeting the conditional branch predictor in high-end Intel processors that could compromise billions of processors being used today. They found an attack that is the first to target a feature in the branch predictor known as the Path History Register (PHR), which tracks branch order and branch addresses. This attack exposes more information with greater precision than previous attacks that lacked branch predictor structure insight. This article continues to discuss the study "Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor."
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