Computer scientists at KU Leuven have once again exposed a security flaw in Intel processors. Jo Van Bulck and Frank Piessens gave the manufacturer one year's time to fix the problem. Now that the embargo has lifted, the KU Leuven team and their colleagues in Austria, the United States, and Australia can share their findings. Plundervolt , Zombieload , Foreshadow : in the past couple of years, Intel has had to issue quite a few patches for vulnerabilities that computer scientists at KU Leuven have helped to expose. "All measures that Intel has taken so far to boost the security of its processors have been necessary, but they were not enough to ward off our new attack," says Jo Van Bulck from the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. Like the previous attacks, the new technique - dubbed Load Value Injection - targets the 'vault' of computer systems that use Intel processors: SGX enclaves (see below) . "To a certain extent, this attack picks up where our Foreshadow attack of 2018 left off.
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