#spectre


New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes

Sep 29, 2026 // 20:17

A new Spectre v2 attack variant called Branch Target Reuse (BTR) can recover root password hashes from Intel computers running Linux in just a few […]

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second

Aug 19, 2026 // 23:59

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in […]

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second

Aug 19, 2026 // 23:58

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in […]

New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes

Aug 7, 2026 // 01:17

Researchers found a way to bypass recent mitigations for Spectre v2 speculative execution side-channel attacks and developed an exploit to leak secrets from Linux machines. […]

New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Aug 7, 2026 // 01:16

An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using […]