Intel, AMD, and ARM have not yet rested well, and they have to double-time once more to address these new variants of two Meltdown and 5 Spectre exploits. A threat actor taking advantage of these flaws can gain unauthorized access to user data. Keeping these exploits unpatched enables an attacker to gain access to the system through an exploitation of hardware-based loopholes, something that can only be fixed with a microcode update. The rest of the security community are continuing their further investigations on the subject.”]