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New TONTOU Attack Defeats Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Security researchers from MIT have uncovered a new attack called TONTOU that bypasses Spectre v2 protections on modern Intel and AMD processors. The exploit targets a critical timing gap in neutralization-based defenses, where the CPU cleanses the branch predictor state but leaves a brief window before that state is actually
06 Aug 2026 1 min read
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