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Rows of computer servers and networking equipment in a brightly-lit server room.

Cloudflare Workers Exposed to Remote Spectre Attack

Researchers have successfully demonstrated a remote Spectre attack on Cloudflare Workers, exfiltrating a secret JSON Web Token (JWT) at an alarming rate of 12 bits per second - roughly 360 times faster than previously shown. This chilling exploit could have devastating consequences in the wrong hands.

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Researcher holds up a small RISC-V processor chip in a clean-room setting.

Researchers Expose Spectre Vulnerability in Commercial RISC-V Chips

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery, proving that commercially available RISC-V chips are vulnerable to devastating Spectre attacks, including Spectre-PHT, Spectre-BTB, Spectre-RSB, and Spectre-STL. They successfully demonstrated attacks with alarming accuracy, achieving up to 100% recall and over 97% precision.

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