Intel: You don’t need to disable Hyper-Threading to protect against the ZombieLoad exploit.

The article reports on the claim by Intel that there is no need for users to disable hyperthreading to protect their computers from Zombieload, the latest Intel central processing unit (CPU) exploit categorized as a speculative executive side-channel attack. Topics covered include explanation from Intel on the capabilities of Zombieload which was renamed as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), and impact of disabling hyperthreading on Zombieload and on the performance of Intel processors.