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MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs - The Register
Researchers at MIT demonstrated a new speculative execution attack called TONTOU that bypasses existing Spectre mitigations on Intel and AMD processors, revealing a previously unaddressed vulnerability class in CPU microarchitecture.
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The Register AI / Software via Google News
Aug 8, 2026
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New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes
Researchers discovered a novel CPU side-channel attack called TONTOU that evades current Spectre v2 mitigations and successfully extracts Linux password hashes, revealing a critical gap in hardware-level security defenses.
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BleepingComputer
Aug 6, 2026