The University of California, Riverside reports that a team of computer scientists has shown how hackers can infiltrate a computer’s graphics processing unit to spy on web activity, extract passwords, and penetrate cloud-based applications. The attack relies on the victim having acquired a malicious program embedded in a downloaded app. Presenting “Rendered Insecure: GPU Side Channel Attacks are Practical” at the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, the team describes what they believe is the first reported general side-channel attacks on GPUs. 
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