PortSmash – A New Side Channel Vulnerability in SMT/Hyper-Threading That Allows Attackers To Steal Sensitive Data

Researchers discovered a new critical side-channel vulnerability dubbed PortSmash that can allow attackers to steal from other simultaneous process running in the same CPU core with that has SMT/Hyper-Threading enabled. The Simultaneous multithreading process is to improve the overall efficiency and reduces tile by carrying out a number of parallel computing tasks.

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