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Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln

Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen ...
SDxCentral

VM Spectre flaw breaks barriers to breach CPU data

A virtual machine (VM) vulnerability that compromises AMD Zen and Intel Coffee Lake CPUs has been discovered. Revealed last month by researchers at ETH Zürich who described it as the first of its kind ...
CSOonline

VMScape Spectre BTI attack breaks VM isolation on AMD and Intel CPUs

The Spectre-like CPU branch target injection (BTI) breaks the guest-host layer in virtualized environments, introducing a new threat to data centers and the cloud. Researchers have demonstrated a ...
SDxCentral

VMware Wraps AMD Hardware Encryption into vSphere

VMware announced support for AMD secure encrypted virtualization-encrypted state (SEV-ES) in the latest update to its vSphere virtualization platform. SEV-ES provides hardware layer encryption of ...
Bleeping Computer

New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs

A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern AMD or Intel CPUs. The attack ...