Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2023
Boffins devised a new iLeakage side-channel speculative execution attack exploits Safari to steal sensitive data from Macs, iPhones, and iPads. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ruhr University Bochum has devised a transient side-channel speculative execution attack that exploits the Safari web browser to steal sensitive information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2021
Linux kernel recently fixed a couple of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to bypass mitigations designed to protect devices against Spectre attacks. Kernel updates released in March have addressed a couple of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass mitigations designed to protect devices against Spectre attacks. In January 2018, White […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 systems to apply mitigations against the Spectre attacks. Over the weekend, Microsoft started distributing software updates for Windows 10 systems to enable the Retpoline mitigations against Spectre attacks. In January 2018 security experts at Google Project Zero disclosed Meltdown and Spectre side-channel attacks that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2018
Researchers who devised the original Meltdown and Spectre attacks disclosed seven new variants that leverage on a technique known as transient execution. In January, white hackers from Google Project Zero disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact all major CPUs, including the ones manufactured by AMD, ARM, and Intel. The expert devised two attacks dubbed Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715), which could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2018
Researchers discovered a new variant of the Spectre attack, dubbed NetSpectre, that allows to steal data over the network from the target system. A group of researchers has devised a new variant of the Spectre attack, dubbed NetSpectre, that could allow an attacker to steal data over the network from the target system. NetSpectre is described as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2018
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have devised a new Spectre CPU side-channel attack called SpectreRSB. SpectreRSB leverage the speculative execution technique that is implemented by most modern CPUs to optimize performance. Differently, from other Spectre attacks, SpectreRSB recovers data from the speculative execution process by targeting the Return Stack Buffer (RSB). “rather than exploiting the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2018
Last week Oracle started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre and Meltdown flaws. In May, tech giants Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM, Microsoft and other tech firms teamed to disclose two new variants of both Meltdown and Spectre issues. The so-called Variant 4 (CVE-2018-3639) relies on a Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2018
Yesterday AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech firms released updates, mitigations and published security advisories for two new variants of Meltdown and Spectre attacks. Spectre and Meltdown made the headlines again, a few days after the disclosure of a new attack technique that allowed a group of researchers to recover data from the System […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2018
Researchers from Eclypsium proposed a new variation of the Spectre attack that can allow attackers to recover data stored inside CPU System Management Mode. Security experts from Eclypsium have devised a new variation of the Spectre attack that can allow attackers to recover data stored inside CPU System Management Mode (SMM) (aka called ring -2). The SMM is an operating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2018
A group of security researchers has reportedly discovered 8 new varieties of the Spectre vulnerabilities, dubbed Spectre-Next Generation or Spectre-NG, that affect Intel CPUs. A German security website reported that an unnamed team of researchers has discovered the new flaws that exploit the new issues reported in the original Spectre and Meltdown attacks. The new eight Spectre-NG vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs also affect some ARM […]
