{"id":244651,"date":"2026-09-30T01:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-spectre-v2-attack-variant-leaks-linux-root-password-hash-in-minutes"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:48","slug":"new-spectre-v2-attack-variant-leaks-linux-root-password-hash-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-spectre-v2-attack-variant-leaks-linux-root-password-hash-in-minutes","title":{"rendered":"New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6en6nmF6Uyc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3\u20135 minutes on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3\u20135 minutes on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}