New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
2026-04-03T08:51:46Z•16a1873d3fa0bad1edd73773b97e80a1b6b5b1b3cc7418a0b959bc45666d222b
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What happened
A batch of high-impact security stories: new Rowhammer variants (GDDRHammer and GeForge) allow GPU memory hammering that can compromise host CPUs on systems with Nvidia GPUs; quantum computing advances significantly lower resource estimates for breaking elliptic-curve/RSA crypto, accelerating Q‑Day timelines; multiple supply‑chain compromises (including Trivy and invisible-Unicode attacks on repositories) are active; a powerful iPhone exploit (DarkSword) is in the wild; Iranian state-aligned offensive activity and a destructive wiper against Stryker highlight nation-state escalation; dozens of
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