Websites Spying on You via SSD Activity Should Receive a FROST-y Welcome - PC Perspective

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Researchers say FROST is a new browser side-channel attack that can infer what other tabs or sites are open by measuring SSD I/O contention.
The attack uses JavaScript and can run without user interaction, raising privacy concerns for Apple device users.
It may expose browsing activity through local storage access patterns, including OPFS-related behavior.
Tools like OPFS Explorer can help inspect local OPFS files and understand the issue.



