A new power side-channel attack named Collide+Power can allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information and it works against nearly any modern CPU.
August 1, 2023 By Eduard Kovacs
A new side-channel attack method that can lead to data leakage works against nearly any modern CPU, but we’re unlikely to see it being used in the wild any time soon.
The research was conducted by a group of eight researchers representing the Graz University of Technology in Austria and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany. Some of the experts involved in the research discovered the notorious Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, as well as several other side-channel attack methods.
The new attack, dubbed Collide+Power, has been compared to Meltdown and a type of vulnerability named Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS).
