Apple Silicon Exclusively Hit With World-First 'Augury' DMP Vulnerability

5/2/2022

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Tom's Hardware -- A team of researchers with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Washington have demonstrated a world-first Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) vulnerability, dubbed "Augury," that's exclusive to Apple Silicon. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow attackers to siphon off "at rest" data, meaning the data doesn't even need to be accessed by the processing cores to be exposed.

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This story was published May 2, 2022.