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Aug 06 2026 New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes

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Researchers found a way to bypass recent mitigations for Spectre v2 speculative execution side-channel attacks and developed an exploit to leak secrets from Linux machines. [...]

Posted by Ionut Ilascu on Thu 06 August 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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