The 2018 Pwnie Nominee For Most Innovative Research

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Credit: Andrei Tatar, Radhesh Krishnan, Elias Athanasopoulos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi

VU has consitently delivered low-level attack research, and prove they are too legit too quit when it’s hammer time. Extending on the premise of the game-changing rowhammer, these researchers weren’t even remotely a bit flippant about flipping a bit remotely. This research explores exploiting rowhammer across the network (server-side!), taking RDMA and making it UR-DMA.

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