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A standard VM doesn't protect from attacks of this level of sophistication.
by leppr 7y ago
A standard VM doesn't protect from attacks of this level of sophistication.
- yadaeno 7y agoI imagine it does unless the attacker has an additional XEN zero-day to pile on.
- leppr 7y agoIn the thread about this attack yesterday someone linked a paper about another attack against cryptocurrency researchers which did use a VM escape exploit [1], so if a cryptocurrency researcher is worth such an exploit, I'd say a company handling the kind of money Coinbase does is probably worthy as well. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20221279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20221279