Research has found that vulnerabilities in Apple's M-series chips are "unpatchable."
Academic researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in Apple's M-series computing chips that could compromise the security of private encryption keys.
On the same day, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone maker, accusing its monopolistic behavior of being harmful to consumers, developers and competitors.
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The research team discovered a vulnerability in the chip's data memory-dependent prefetcher (DMP).
Crypto analyst George explained that DMP is a hardware optimization that predicts data in advance and preloads it into the CPU cache. However, it faces a problem of occasionally mistaking sensitive data, such as encryption keys, for memory addresses.