FROST paper claims a web page can ID your other sites and apps via SSD activity

A paper linked in a thread says FROST can identify websites with 88.95% accuracy and applications with 95.83% by measuring SSD activity from a visited page.

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If a web page can infer other tabs and apps you are using by watching SSD activity, then conventional anti-tracking defenses are not enough. Browser, OS, and hardware boundaries may need new mitigations.

FROST paper claims a web page can ID your other sites and apps via SSD activity — A paper linked in a thread says FROST can identify websites with 88.95% accuracy and applications with 95.83% by measuring SSD activity from a visited page.

International Cyber Digest flagged a new attack called FROST that can infer which websites you are visiting and which applications you are running by observing SSD activity from a web page, according to a thread by International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) linking to the paper.…

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