2 posts tagged ‘Apple A15’
Operation Triangulation Details
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Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky. Chief among the discoveries: the unknown attackers were able to achieve an unprecedented level of access by exploiting a […]
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly 6 years of effort to mitigate it since its discovery. We show how an attacker can […]