Trend Micro, Nvidia Partner to Secure AI Data Centers

June 6, 2024 at 08:39AM Trend Micro and Nvidia are teaming up to provide cybersecurity tools for private AI clouds, leveraging Nvidia’s GPUs to enhance data privacy, real-time analysis, and threat mitigation. By using GPUs, Trend Micro’s AI-powered security tools will offer faster threat detection and protection, appealing to companies with a strong focus on … Read more

New Attack Shows Risks of Browsers Giving Websites Access to GPU 

March 18, 2024 at 09:15AM Researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria and the University of Rennes in France discovered a new graphics processing unit (GPU) attack on popular browsers and graphics cards. By using the WebGPU API, they demonstrated an attack from within a web browser using JavaScript, showing potential risks and implications … Read more

AMD, Apple, Qualcomm GPUs leak AI data in LeftoverLocals attacks

January 17, 2024 at 10:36AM The ‘LeftoverLocals’ vulnerability affects GPUs from AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and Imagination Technologies, allowing data retrieval from local memory. Discovered by Trail of Bits researchers Tyler Sorensen and Heidy Khlaaf, it exploits incomplete memory isolation in GPU frameworks, enabling unauthorized data access. Mitigation efforts are underway, including patching and recommending automatic … Read more

AI Data Exposed to ‘LeftoverLocals’ Attack via Vulnerable AMD, Apple, Qualcomm GPUs

January 17, 2024 at 08:30AM Researchers discovered a new attack method, LeftoverLocals (CVE-2023-4969), exploiting a GPU vulnerability to access sensitive data from AI and other applications. LeftoverLocals can affect Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, and Imagination Technologies GPUs. Qualcomm and Apple are releasing patches, while AMD plans mitigations in March 2024. The vulnerability allows local attackers to … Read more