Security News > 2018 > May > New Rowhammer attack can be used to hack Android devices remotely

Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to use a Rowhammer attack to remotely hack Android phones. What is a Rowhammer attack? “The Rowhammer attack targets the design of DRAM memory. On a system where the DRAM is insufficiently refreshed, targeted operations on a row of DRAM memory may be able to influence the memory values on neighboring rows,” the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie … More → The post New Rowhammer attack can be used to hack Android devices remotely appeared first on Help Net Security.

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