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Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

Credit: Victor van der Veen, Yanick Fratantonio, Martina Lindorfer, Daniel Gruss, Clementine Maurice, Giovanni Vigna, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi, Cristiano Giuffrida

Mobile computing row hammer attacks (MC Hammers, for short) are terrifying. You can’t touch them and can only hope that, please, they won’t hurt you.