Tag: spectre
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New paper: Does malware based on Spectre exist?
The discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January cast a long shadow over the year, with many of the issued security patches having their own problems and several new variants of the two attacks having been discovered. Yet many questions about the attacks remain unanswered. In a presentation at the inaugural Pass the…
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New paper: Does malware based on Spectre exist?
The discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January cast a long shadow over the year, with many of the issued security patches having their own problems and several new variants of the two attacks having been discovered. Yet many questions about the attacks remain unanswered. In a presentation at the inaugural Pass the…
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There is no evidence in-the-wild malware is using Meltdown or Spectre
Almost a month after the Meltdown and Spectre attacks against various CPUs were discovered and revealed to the public, there have been reports of the existence of malware that appears to be using the published proof-of-concept code. The source of these reports is a Google Plus post from testing organization AV-Test , which lists the…
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There is no evidence in-the-wild malware is using Meltdown or Spectre
Almost a month after the Meltdown and Spectre attacks against various CPUs were discovered and revealed to the public, there have been reports of the existence of malware that appears to be using the published proof-of-concept code. The source of these reports is a Google Plus post from testing organization AV-Test , which lists the…