https://zombieloadattack.com/
Mitigation requires disabling hyper threading (30% performance hit) and new microcode (3-9% hit). This is on top of previous exploit mitigation techniques. Very soon Intel CPU’s will be going backwards!!! Web page shows a proof of concept video and shows how data can be siphoned from other apps running in other processes. Even cloud based and VM systems are affected.
Mitigation requires disabling hyper threading (30% performance hit) and new microcode (3-9% hit). This is on top of previous exploit mitigation techniques. Very soon Intel CPU’s will be going backwards!!! Web page shows a proof of concept video and shows how data can be siphoned from other apps running in other processes. Even cloud based and VM systems are affected.