New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users' Web Activities

A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity.
"SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections," the researchers said in a study released this week.
"This bottleneck influences the latency of network packets, allowing an attacker

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