New WireTap Attack Extracts Intel SGX ECDSA Key via DDR4 Memory-Bus Interposer

In yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel's Software Guard eXtensions SGX can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data. SGX is designed as a hardware...

New $50 Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Cloud Security Protections

A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM to bypass the latest defenses on Intel and AMD cloud processors. "We built a simple, $50 interposer that sits quietly in the memory path, behaving transparently during...