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title: "New report on Spectre / Meltdown Exploitation"
canonical: "https://www.virtcloudrocks.com/space/INFOSEC/blog/852286/New%20report%20on%20Spectre%20%2F%20Meltdown%20Exploitation"
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Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to privileged data.

This is another exploitation that is publicly announced, since the Spectre and Meltdown flaws were reported at the beginning of the year. In short, these processor security flaws can be exploited by malicious users and malware on a vulnerable machine potentially to lift passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets, out of memory that should be off-limits.

> Macro (auibutton)