Vulnerabilities

MIT TONTOU attack bypasses Spectre defenses on Intel, AMD

August 07, 2026 1 min read 5 views
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MIT researchers developed TONTOU, a speculative execution attack using interrupt injection to re-poison branch predictors, bypassing Spectre v2 mitigations on Intel and AMD CPUs.

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