A group of researchers has found a serious security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series of chips that would allow attackers to steal secret keys from Mac and iPad devices.
The problem affects Apple M1, M2 and M3 chips — which have been used in Apple desktops, notebooks and tablets since late
Cool stuff. Sucks that the prefetching process cannot be disabled on cryptographic operations with the M1 and M2 Macs.
I purchased an M1 and I don’t feel any appreciable slowdowns or need to upgrade to a newer computer. This kind of vulnerability skews that decision, and I’m not especially happy about it.