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

By Bill Toulas · BleepingComputer · Tuesday, 29 September 2026 at 17:10 (yesterday) · Original article ↗

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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