30 Jan, 2025

New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steal data from browsers

A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. The Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum researchers, who presented another attack dubbed ‘iLeakage’ in October 2023,  presented their new findings in two separate papers, namely FLOP and SLAP, which show distinct flaws […]

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New RAMBO attack steals data using RAM in air-gapped computers

A novel side-channel attack dubbed  “RAMBO” (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device’s RAM to send data from air-gapped computers. Air-gapped systems, typically used in mission-critical environments with exceptionally high-security requirements, such as governments, weapon systems, and nuclear power stations, are isolated from the public internet and other networks to […]

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