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MIT CSAIL Researchers Discover Interrupt Injection Attack

August 6, 2026

Researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan from MIT CSAIL discovered the Interrupt Injection attack, which bypasses Spectre v2 defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs. They named the attack class TONTOU and demonstrated it on multiple processor generations. The work was presented at Black Hat USA and USENIX Security.