The 2018 Pwnie Nominee For Most Innovative Research

GrandPwningUnit/GLitch

Credit: Pietro Frigo, Cristiano Giuffrida, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi

Seriously VU, stop breaking everything. You know what’s better than microarchitectural attacks? IC-enhanced microarchitectural attacks. This work exploits the mechanics of a GPU cache eviction to throw shade on side-channel and rowhammer mitigations, rendering the defenses useless. Demonstration is provided with a remote GPU-enhanced exploit, combining a side-channel and rowhammer attack to compromise an ARM mobile device from the browser.

GrandPwningUnit/GLitch