Security News > 2025 > January > New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits
2025-01-29 10:49
A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from web browsers like Safari and Google Chrome. The attacks have been codenamed Data Speculation Attacks via Load Address Prediction on Apple Silicon (SLAP) and Breaking the
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