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Sep 29 2026 New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes

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A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3-5 minutes on average. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Tue 29 September 2026 in BleepingComputer.

Tags: Security, Hardware, Linux.

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