Security News > 2024 > June > New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users' Web Activities
2024-06-28 09:59
A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity. "SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections," the researchers said in a study released this week. "This bottleneck influences the latency of network packets, allowing an attacker
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