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Throwhammer the New Way to Launch Rowhammer Attacks via Network Packets

A team of researchers from Vrije University in Amsterdam and the University of Cyprus found a way to launch Rowhammer attacks through network packets and network cards. This, according to information security experts, makes Rowhammer attacks be launched in a more facile and comfortable way, since the malicious actor only needs to bombard the victim’s […]

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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing

Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. 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 make millions of […]

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