'Hertzbleed' Side-Channel Attack Threatens Cryptographic Keys for Servers - DARKReading


6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Tara Seals

A novel timing attack allows remote attackers with low privileges to infer sensitive information by observing power-throttling changes in the CPU.

A side-channel timing attack dubbed "Hertzbleed" by researchers could allow remote attackers to sniff out cryptographic keys for servers. It affects most Intel processors, as well as some chipsets fr… [+3160 chars]

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