Brave Blog company blog

Preventing Pool-Party Attacks

by @brave brave.com published 2021-12-15

Brave has identified a new category of tracking vulnerability, forms of which are present in all browsers. We call this category of attack “pool-party” attacks because the attack uses collections (or “pools”) of limited-but-shared resources to create side channels.

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