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by leppr 2557 days ago
A standard VM doesn't protect from attacks of this level of sophistication.
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I imagine it does unless the attacker has an additional XEN zero-day to pile on.
In the thread about this attack yesterday someone linked a paper about another attack against cryptocurrency researchers which did use a VM escape exploit [1], so if a cryptocurrency researcher is worth such an exploit, I'd say a company handling the kind of money Coinbase does is probably worthy as well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20221279