vulnerability Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible Researchers have discovered that some RISC-V chips are vulnerable to Spectre, a hardware-level security flaw that can be exploited to steal sensitive data. This represents a resurgence of Spectre concerns, highlighting the ongoing challenge of securing emerging processor architectures. The Register · Aug 12, 2026 Medium spectrerisc-vhardware