Apple’s Safari browser is still vulnerable to Spectre attacks

2018, the Spectre attack revealed critical security vulnerabilities in numerous systems that could be exploited to harvest sensitive data. The implementation of countermeasures is supposed to protect from such attacks.

Modern processors come with a fundamental vulnerability in their hardware architecture that allows attackers to hijack sensitive data. This insight emerged from the so-called Spectre attack reported in 2018. A great number of devices and operating systems was affected. In response, manufacturers developed countermeasures - Apple was one of them. Still, researchers showed even in 2023 that Mac and iOS systems are not yet adequately protected against this type of attack. ...