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MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at Black Hat that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses…

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MIT researchers will demonstrate a new speculative‑execution attack at Black Hat that uses precisely timed timer interrupts to reopen the branch‑predictor poisoning window.

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