PACMAN M1 Chip Attack Explained | Security Insights By PurpleSec

The team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have discovered a way to attack the pointer authentication in Apple’s M1 chip to execute arbitrary code on Macintosh systems.

The team says that the vulnerability is found in other ARM chips, not just the M1 – but it hasn’t yet had the chance to try it against the M2.

In order to get a little closer to this attack and what is the main characteristic and basis of …

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