Security News > 2019 > June > Researchers devise RAMBleed attack to grab secret data from memory

Researchers have demonstrated a new variation of the Rowhammer attack: dubbed RAMBleed, it may allow attackers to read data stored inside the computer’s physical memory. “While the end-to-end attack we demonstrated read out OpenSSH 7.9’s RSA key, RAMBleed can potentially read any data stored in memory. In practice, what can be read depends on the victim program’s memory access patterns,” they explained. About Rowhammer and RAMBleed Rowhammer is an exploitable issue in some computer chips … More → The post Researchers devise RAMBleed attack to grab secret data from memory appeared first on Help Net Security.

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