November 10, 2023 at 09:36AM A class action lawsuit has been filed against Intel over its handling of speculative execution vulnerabilities, specifically the “Downfall” attack. Plaintiffs claim that Intel CPUs are defective, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks or with significantly slower performance due to vulnerability fixes. The complaint accuses Intel of selling flawed CPUs despite … Read more
November 9, 2023 at 05:28PM A lawsuit has been filed against Intel by PC buyers who claim the company failed to address faulty chip instructions that led to the Downfall vulnerability. The lawsuit alleges that Intel knew about the susceptibility of its AVX instruction set to side-channel attacks in 2018 but only fixed the defect … Read more
October 27, 2023 at 04:35PM Researchers have developed a side-channel exploit called “iLeakage” that affects Apple CPUs, allowing sophisticated attackers to extract sensitive information from browsers. The exploit takes advantage of speculative execution in Apple silicon CPUs and the Apple WebKit capabilities inside a browser. All recent iPhone, iPad, and MacBook models are affected, and … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 02:06PM A group of academics has discovered a new side-channel attack called iLeakage that targets Apple’s A- and M-series CPUs on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. By exploiting a weakness in Safari, sensitive information can be extracted. The attack could be used to retrieve Gmail inbox content and autofilled passwords from … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 07:32AM Researchers have developed a new side-channel attack called iLeakage that can extract sensitive information from Safari on Apple devices. It bypasses standard side-channel protections and can retrieve data from Safari, Firefox, Tor, and Edge on iOS with near-perfect accuracy. The attack exploits speculative execution in Apple Silicon CPUs and requires … Read more