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RAMBleed side channel attack uses Rowhammer to steal sensitive data from computer memory

Dev Kundaliya

12 June 2019 •

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RAMBleed is a side-channel attack that enables an attacker to read out physical memory belonging to other processes

Researchers used RAMBleed to obtain a signing key from an OpenSSH server using normal user privileges

A group of security researchers have unveiled a new attack, dubbed RAMBleed, which uses Rowhammer to extract confidential data stored in a computer's memory. The researchers claimed that they have successfully...

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