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Requires physical access:

The attack requires an attacker who already controls the server's software and can briefly access the machine to insert a small circuit board, called an interposer, between the processor and a memory module.

So not like Spectre or Meltdown. I suspect we'll only see more and more vulnerabilities like this exposed as LLMs are used by capable security researchers and computer criminals to reduce the amount of work required to explore concepts that wouldn't have been worthwhile in the past.

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[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

I suspect we’ll only see more and more vulnerabilities like this exposed as LLMs are used by capable security researchers and computer criminals to reduce the amount of work required to explore concepts that wouldn’t have been worthwhile in the past.

The article doesn't mention anything about LLMs. Neither does the code repository or the paper , with the exception of

This paper was edited for grammar using Grammarly and Google Gemini.

in the Acknowledgements.

What makes you think that an LLM made this work possible? The technique of using an interposer to mess with memory writes is both an obvious one and one that has been used for previous attacks, as mentioned in the article.

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