Intel is facing another wave of reported security issues that affect the company's processors. The vulnerabilities, called Spectre Next Generation or Spectre NG, have not been disclosed publicly yet.
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report on the German computer magazine site Heise suggests that eight new vulnerabilities were reported to Intel recently. Intel gave four of the eight vulnerabilities a severity rating of high and the remaining four a severity rating of medium according to Heise.
The exploitability of one of the vulnerabilities appears to be higher than that of previous issues as attackers may abuse the issue to break out of virtual machines to attack the host system or other machines, reports Heise.
Companies that provide cloud hosting or cloud services are primary targets for the vulnerability as attackers may exploit it to gain access to data transfers and data.