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According to Intel in a May 2019 interview with [[Wired.com|Wired]], Intel's researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in 2018 before anyone else.<ref name="Greenberg" /> Other researchers had agreed to keep the exploit confidential as well since 2018.

On 14 May 2019, a group of security researchers from Austria's [[Graz University of Technology]] and Belgium's [[KU Leuven|Catholic University of Leuven]], in a [[responsible disclosure|disclosure coordinated]] with Intel, published the discovery ofthe a group ofMDS vulnerabilities in Intel microprocessors, which they named ZombieLoad, RIDL, and Fallout.<ref name="Greenberg" /><ref name="zombieloadattack.com">{{cite web|url=https://zombieloadattack.com/|title=ZombieLoad Attack|website=zombieloadattack.com|accessdate=14 May 2019}}</ref> Three of the TU Graz researchers were from the group who had discovered [[Meltdown (security vulnerability)|Meltdown]] and [[Spectre (security vulnerability)|Spectre]] the year before.<ref name="Greenberg" />

==Impact==