Frightening: Cyber attack via stolen GPU pixels in the browser
Cyber attack: Researchers stole the cached, compressed GPU graphics data values from a browser using side channel analysis, reconstructed them using machine learning (ML), and thus obtained website login data and other sensitive data. How the whole thing works sounds shockingly simple - but you can also protect yourself! In a research paper, researchers from Austin Texas, Carnegie Mellon, Washington and Illinois Urbana-Champaign universities present a method for carrying out a side-channel attack on graphics card GPUs that can be used to obtain sensitive information from running programs. This “pixel theft” and their values – artifacts –…
