Spectre is back: the BTR flaw reads memory on Intel, AMD and Arm chips
BTR, a Spectre variant, pulled the Linux root password hash in minutes during tests. Also: 12.9 million records for sale in Mexico, the America.gov chatbot and Earth's core.
- Researchers published BTR, a Spectre v2 variant that affects Intel, AMD and Arm processors; Linux has already merged patches.
- In tests it pulled the root password hash from a Linux machine with an Intel chip in 3 to 5 minutes, at about 8 bytes per second.
- Mexico is investigating the sale on Telegram of 12.9 million personal records attributed to call centers.