New Battering RAM Attack Bypasses Latest Defenses on Intel and AMD Cloud Processors

Confidential computing promised to protect sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Yet a new low-cost hardware attack, Battering RAM, demonstrates that even up-to-date memory-encryption schemes on Intel and AMD processors can be defeated with a simple interposer costing under 50 dollars. Modern servers use DDR4 DRAM with hardware-backed encryption, such as Intel SGX’s Total Memory Encryption (TME) […]

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