Intel CPUs at risk from new ‘Snoop’ attack

A new attack that can leak data from a CPU’s internal memory or cache has been discovered which affects many popular Intel processors. The “Snoop-assisted L1 Data Sampling” attack, or Snoop for short, was first found by a software engineer at AWS named Pawel Wieczorkiewicz. Wieczorkiewicz promptly reported the issue to Intel and following its […]