Entercom Communications, one of the largest radio station owners in the U.S. has been dealing with a cyberattack that looks very much like a ransomware incident. The issue occurred over the past weekend and affects all offices the company has across the country.
NetCAT shows that network-based cache side-channel attacks are a realistic threat. Cache attacks have been traditionally used to leak sensitive data on a local setting (e.g., from an attacker-controlled virtual machine to a victim virtual machine that share the CPU cache on a cloud platform). With NetCAT, we show this threat extends to untrusted clients … Continue reading NetCAT →