Pathfinder – New Attack Steals Sensitive Data From Modern Processors

Microarchitectural side-channel attacks misuse shared processor state to transmit information between security domains.  Although they can be used in isolation, they are frequently employed as building blocks for more sophisticated attacks such as Spectre, which uses side channels to achieve controlled speculative execution and data exfiltration.  The following cybersecurity analysts recently discovered a new attack […]

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