Remote Rowhammer Attack Using Adversarial Observations on Federated Learning Clients

Federated Learning FL has the potential for simultaneous global learning amongst a large number of parallel agents, enabling emerging AI such as LLMs to be trained across demographically diverse data. Central to this being efficient is the ability for FL to perform sparse gradient updates and...

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

Rowhammer blog post draft Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse engineer This guest post continues Project Zero’s practice of promoting excellence in security research on the Project Zero blog Overview “Rowhammer” is a problem with some...