<story><title>There&apos;s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/theres-a-new-way-to-flip-bits-in-dram-and-it-works-against-the-latest-defenses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet? I can&amp;#x27;t seem to find anything that says yes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27318960&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27318960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 years ago someone asked and it looks like the answer was &amp;quot;nope&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csoonline.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;573715&amp;#x2F;rowhammer-memory-attacks-close-in-on-the-real-world.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csoonline.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;573715&amp;#x2F;rowhammer-memory-at...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 years ago they were &amp;quot;closer&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I couldn&amp;#x27;t seem to find anything that said they&amp;#x27;re known to be successfully exploited yet. My understanding (which is shallow at best) makes me think they&amp;#x27;re still really tough to use in a real world attack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>&amp;gt; RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a question I&amp;#x27;ve been asking myself for many highly publicized vulns. I once made this table:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hannob&amp;#x2F;vulns&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hannob&amp;#x2F;vulns&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>There&apos;s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/theres-a-new-way-to-flip-bits-in-dram-and-it-works-against-the-latest-defenses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet? I can&amp;#x27;t seem to find anything that says yes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27318960&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27318960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 years ago someone asked and it looks like the answer was &amp;quot;nope&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csoonline.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;573715&amp;#x2F;rowhammer-memory-attacks-close-in-on-the-real-world.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csoonline.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;573715&amp;#x2F;rowhammer-memory-at...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 years ago they were &amp;quot;closer&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I couldn&amp;#x27;t seem to find anything that said they&amp;#x27;re known to be successfully exploited yet. My understanding (which is shallow at best) makes me think they&amp;#x27;re still really tough to use in a real world attack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denton-scratch</author><text>&amp;gt; and the other speculative execution&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think RowHammer is a speculative execution attack, is it? I thought Spectre and Meltdown were the best-known examples of SE attacks.</text></comment>