Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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[–] praguepride 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It's an interesting physical gimmick right now but you better believe "security" teams are testing the crap out of this to try and figure out remote control. I bet it'd be tailored towards a particular chip set/OS combination though for a remote hack because you would need to know how the data is physically being stored to know what to rowhammer.
HOWEVER as they speculate, if you could do this on a global level, you could raise huge numbers of bots without going through the effort of hacking. Insert your rowhammer into a website, give it a click-baiting title like "10 Celebrities Bare All" (You'll be surprised by #4) and then just sit back and if it works it works, if not no sweat.
Make some changes, give it a new click bait title and get more bots. Repeat over and over and over again and now you've got a smorgasboard of bots without ever really trying.