GPUs vulnerable vector for attacking PC
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 9:06 pm
Goodness me, an interesting article about a research paper.
Looking forward to the patch
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 143121.htm
Looking forward to the patch
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 143121.htm
...reverse engineered a Nvidia GPU to demonstrate three attacks on both graphics and computational stacks, as well as across them ... All three attacks require the victim to first acquire a malicious program embedded in a downloaded app. The program is designed to spy on the victim's computer ...
The first attack tracks user activity on the web.
In the second attack, the authors extracted user passwords.
The third attack targets a computational application in the cloud.
The researchers reported their findings to Nvidia, who responded that they intend to publish a patch...