Security News > 2024 > May > New Spectre-Style 'Pathfinder' Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data
2024-05-08 14:17
Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The techniques have been collectively dubbed Pathfinder by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego, Purdue University, UNC Chapel
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