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New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes

  • Bill Toulas--BleepingComputer
  • published date: 2026-09-29 17:10:11 UTC

A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3-5 minutes on average. [...]

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