side-channel attacks
Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs
Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased their capabilities. But larger models are ...
#Pixnapping: Android Timing Attack Sends Google Back to the Drawing Board
If at first you don’t succeed: Researchers discover a new way to steal secrets from Android apps ...
SLAP/FLOP: Apple Silicon’s ‘Son of Spectre’ Critical Flaws
Watch this: Want more “speculative execution” bugs? You’re gonna be in a great mood all day ...
New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
This is another attack that convinces the AI to ignore road signs: Due to the way CMOS cameras operate, rapidly changing light from fast flashing diodes can be used to vary the ...
Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access ...
ChatGPT Plugin Security Vulnerabilities Exploited By Hackers
In the realm of cybersecurity, constant vigilance is paramount as threat actors perpetually seek novel ways to exploit vulnerabilities. Recent research has shed light on a concerning trend: the potential misuse of ...
‘PrintListener’ Attack on Fingerprint Readers — Can You Trust Biometrics?🤞
Mic Check: Researchers reconstruct your fingerprint by listening to you swipe ...
Side Channels Are Common
Really interesting research: “Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs.” Abstract: We show that built-in sensors in commodity PCs, such as microphones, inadvertently capture electromagnetic side-channel leakage from ...
Power LED Side-Channel Attack
This is a clever new side-channel attack: The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader—or of an attached ...
Security Analysis of Threema
A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema. We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than 10 million users ...
