INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Security researchers at Google and Microsoft have found a new variant of the Spectre security flaw that was first reported back in January
this year.Rumors of the latest CPU bug were disclosed by a German computer science publication earlier this month, but the details of the
vulnerability were only officially revealed on Monday, May 21.Called Speculative Store Bypass (or Variant 4), the new strain exploits
similar vulnerabilities as the older Spectre and Meltdown bugs but, according to Intel, uses a different method to access sensitive
information.Partly patchedThe new variant can be exploited by running script files (or text files which contain a sequence of commands) on
programs like web browsers
like another tab in the case of browsers.Intel, however, has classified the new bug as medium risk, explaining in a blog post that most of
Variant 4 in beta form to OEM system manufacturers and system software vendors, and we expect it will be released into production BIOS and
previous Spectre and Meltdown patches, these new processor firmware updates could potentially reduce system performance too
