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17 days ago
New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes
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What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. BleepingComputer is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 29 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. The headline in use is “New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
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. [...
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New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes
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