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A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

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A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Blog · Official source · Aug 19, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-location and how new defenses further harden Cloudflare Workers.