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Modern GPUs vulnerable to new GPU.zip side-channel attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So basically what's on the monitor isn't even safe anymore. If I were a security researcher in charge of protecting a high profile client I would feel so discouraged right now...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From the article it seems like it only affects Chrome and it would take a lot of time to extract any useful information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chromium as a whole or just Chrome specifically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would say it's likely that it affects Chromium as a whole, what affects chrome usually also affects chromium as well, and while some modified versions might be unaffected it's likely that most are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The article doesn't mention Edge one way or the other. The demonstration attack was browser based, but presumably other locally installed malware would be able to use the same side-channel attack as well.