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Sep 2021
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Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even m...

Hussein Nasser
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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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