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Jason Kim, Jalen Chuang, Daniel Genkin and Yuval Yarom, from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum, have published two new reports detailing the attack methodologies, known as FLOP and SLAP.
The reserchers informed the tech giant on about SLAP to Apple on May 24, 2024, and FLOP on September 3, 2024.
Which apple devices are at risk?
- All Mac laptops from 2022–present (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro)
- All Mac desktops from 2023–present (Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Studio, Mac Pro)
- All iPad Pro, Air, and Mini models from September 2021–present (Pro 6th and 7th generation, Air 6th gen., Mini 6th gen.)
- All iPhones from September 2021–present (All 13, 14, 15, and 16 models, SE 3rd gen.)
As per the report, the attacks exploit side-channel vulnerabilities in Apple silicon to read sensitive data from Chrome and Safari, including from services being accessed by them such as Gmail and iCloud, for example. “There are hardware and software measures to ensure that two open webpages are isolated from each other, preventing one of them from maliciously reading the other's contents,” the researchers said, “SLAP and FLOP break these protections, allowing attacker pages to read sensitive login-protected data from target webpages.”
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