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Cybersecurity

Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone

May 3, 2018

Via: ArsTechnica

Over the past few years, there has been a steady evolution in Rowhammer, the once largely theoretical attack that exploits physical defects in memory chips to tamper with the security of the devices they run on. On Thursday, researchers are […]


Cybersecurity

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing

October 24, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered “root” access to a large number of Android phones, exploiting a relatively new type of bug that allows adversaries to manipulate data stored in memory chips. The breakthrough has the potential to […]


Cybersecurity

New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort

September 1, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’s a technique that’s so surgical and controlled that it allows one machine to effectively steal the cryptographic […]