A sophisticated browser-based surveillance FROST technique, short for Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing, that enables malicious websites to silently profile user activity by exploiting solid-state drive timing patterns entirely from within JavaScript. FROST, developed by researchers at Graz University of Technology, targets the Origin Private File System (OPFS) API, a relatively new browser feature that allows web applications […]
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