Spectre - Vulnerability

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
7
occurrences
First Seen
November 11, 2025
Last Seen
June 2, 2026

Spectre is a vulnerability tracked across 7 threat clusters and 7 intelligence report mentions on ThreatCluster. First observed November 11, 2025; most recent activity June 2, 2026.

Overview

Spectre is a class of microarchitectural vulnerabilities that exploit speculative execution to leak sensitive data across process or virtual machine boundaries via side channels such as caches and branch predictors. It affects a wide range of CPUs from major vendors (Intel, AMD, ARM) and remains difficult to fully remediate, requiring ongoing hardware, firmware, and software mitigations with potential performance costs. Its significance lies in breaking fundamental trust boundaries in computing, impacting devices, clouds, and software supply chains alike.

Related Threat Clusters

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  • AI-Driven Exploit Bypasses Apple's M5 Security in Days

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  • Nightmare-Eclipse Banned from GitHub and GitLab for Zero-Day Exploits

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  • MIT Uncovers Security Flaws in Apple M1 Chip

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  • LLM Side-Channel Attack Exposes User Conversations

    Microsoft researchers reported that a side-channel attack can enable unauthorized parties to infer topics discussed in large language models (LLMs). Models from providers such as Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek, and Google…

    2 articles · Updated November 11, 2025
  • LLM Side-Channel Attack Exposes User Conversations

    Microsoft researchers reported that a side-channel attack can enable unauthorized parties to infer the topics being discussed with large language models (LLMs). Models from providers such as Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek,…

    2 articles · Updated November 11, 2025

Recent Intelligence Reports

  • RFC 9239, published in May 2022 — www.rfc-editor.org · June 2, 2026
  • Vulnerability Embargos Are Dead — jericho.blog · May 28, 2026
  • MIT Researchers Discover Flaws in the Apple M1 SoC — Electropages · May 25, 2026
  • Memory Integrity Enforcement — security.apple.com · May 14, 2026
  • Google and Apple have urgently released updates that should close security "holes" after ... — Dev.Ua · December 13, 2025
  • LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess topic — Theregister · November 11, 2025
  • LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess what you're talking about — Theregister · November 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown