Apple's A- and M-series chips, powering its latest devices, have been found to harbor critical vulnerabilities that could leak sensitive user data such as credit card details, location history, and private communications.
Researchers Yuval Yarom from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, along with Daniel Genkin, Jalen Chuang, and Jason Kim from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, released papers detailing two new speculative-execution attacks called SLAP and FLOP.
