New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency To Spy On Users' Web Activities

Summary:

  1. Researchers from Graz University introduce SnailLoad, a side-channel attack exploiting network latency to deduce users’ web activities.
  2. The attack tricks targets into loading assets from a malicious server, using latency measurements to infer visited websites or watched videos.
  3. SnailLoad achieves up to 98% accuracy for video identification, highlighting a new privacy threat without needing direct network access.

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