Red Security

Quote:Group of Security researchers discovered new Spectre remote attack called NetSpectre over a network connection that affected nearly billion of devices around the world. Previously discovered highly critical vulnerabilities Spectre and Meltdown have been made a huge impact on IT sectors and the attack works on mobile devices, personal computers, and cloud infrastructure depends on the cloud providers. Other Spectre level attacks are required local user interaction and the attacker needs to Trick victims to download some malicious file and execute into their system. It’s believed that all processors, including Intel, AMD, and ARM chips, vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 are also vulnerable to NetSpectre. NetSpectre leaks sensitive data, such as encryption keys or passwords, using the NetSpectre attack in a cloud environment.