Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show
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Spook.js is a new transient execution side channel attack which targets the Chrome web browser. We show that despite Google's attempts to mitigate Spectre by deploying Strict Site Isolation, information extraction via malicious JavaScript code is still possible in some cases.
Resources
https://www.spookjs.com/
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-isolation
Paper: https://www.spookjs.com/files/spook-js.pdf
Chapters
0:00 Process Isolation in Chrome
8:00 Spook.js subdomain Attack
12:00 Spook.js Extension Attack
13:00 Summary
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