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On 14 May 2019, various groups of security researchers, amongst others from Austria's [[Graz University of Technology]], Belgium's [[KU Leuven|Catholic University of Leuven]], and Netherlands' [[Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]], in a [[responsible disclosure|disclosure coordinated]] with Intel, published the discovery of the MDS vulnerabilities in Intel microprocessors, which they named Fallout, RIDL and ZombieLoad.<ref name="Greenberg"/><ref name="zombieloadattack.com">{{cite web |url=https://zombieloadattack.com/ |title=ZombieLoad Attack |website=zombieloadattack.com |access-date=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"/>

On 12 November 12, 2019, a new variant of the ZombieLoad attack, called Transactional Asynchronous Abort, was disclosed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/12/zombieload_cpu_attack/|title=True to its name, Intel CPU flaw ZombieLoad comes shuffling back with new variant|first=Shaun|last=at 18:02Nichols|firstdate=Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 12 NovNovember 2019|website=www.theregister.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-cascade-lake-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-v2-attack/|title=Intel's Cascade Lake CPUs impacted by new Zombieload v2 attack|last=Cimpanu|first=Catalin|website=ZDNet|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>

==Impact==