Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability that, unlike other variants, can launch over a network. Called NetSpectre , an attack could enable hackers to extract data such as passwords, cryptographic keys and other information stored in CPU memory from systems on a network. Researchers reported vulnerability to Spectre to Intel in March , which came up with a software patch. News of NetSpectre came March after NetSpectre paid a $ 100,000 bug bounty for the reporting of new vulnerabilities related to Spectre variant one, while NetSpectre and Intel reported Spectre variant four vulnerabilities in May.
Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability that, unlike other variants, can launch over a network. Called NetSpectre, an attack could enable hackers to extract data such as passwords, cryptographic keys and other information stored in CPU memory from systems on a network. Researchers reported vulnerability to Spectre to Intel in March, which came up with a software patch. News of NetSpectre came two weeks after Intel paid a $100,000 bug bounty for the reporting of new vulnerabilities related to Spectre variant one, while Microsoft and Google reported Spectre variant four vulnerabilities in May.