Researchers have devised a new attack that allows unprivileged code running on computers to steal secrets, such as cryptographic keys, that are stored in what should be protected memory regions. The attack is possible because of a known design issue with modern DRAM chips that has been exploited in the past to modify protected data.
Dubbed RAMBleed, the new attack is the work of researchers Andrew Kwong and Daniel Genkin from the University of Michigan, Daniel Gruss from the Graz University of Technology and Yuval Yarom from University of Adelaide and Data61.
