New security technical papers presented at the August 2025 USENIX Security Symposium.
A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at the August 2025 USENIX Security Symposium. The organization provides open access research, and the presentation slides and papers are free to the public. Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses, embedded security, fuzzing, fault injection, rowhammer, and more. Here are some highlights with associated links:
| Technical Paper | Research Organizations |
|---|---|
| GPUHammer: Rowhammer Attacks on GPU Memories are Practical | University of Toronto |
| GenHuzz: An Efficient Generative Hardware Fuzzer | Technical University of Darmstadt, Texas A&M University |
| Encarsia: Evaluating CPU Fuzzers via Automatic Bug Injection | ETH Zurich |
| SoK: A Security Architect’s View of Printed Circuit Board Attacks | Bloomberg, Terraverum, University of Florida |
| ECC.fail: Mounting Rowhammer Attacks on DDR4 Servers with ECC Memory | Georgia Tech, Univ. of Michigan, Purdue Univ., and Ruhr University Bochum |
| SoK: So, You Think You Know All About Secure Randomized Caches? | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Not so Refreshing: Attacking GPUs using RFM Rowhammer Mitigation | UC Riverside, Brookhaven National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab |
| McSee: Evaluating Advanced Rowhammer Attacks and Defenses via Automated DRAM Traffic Analysis | ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley |
| Branch Privilege Injection: Compromising Spectre v2 Hardware Mitigations by Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions | ETH Zurich |
| TEEcorrelate: An Information-Preserving Defense against Performance-Counter Attacks on TEEs | TU Graz, Fraunhofer, Univ. Luebeck |
| BarraCUDA: Edge GPUs do Leak DNN Weights | Radboud University, Ruhr University Bochum |
| Tracking You from a Thousand Miles Away! Turning a Bluetooth Device into an Apple AirTag Without Root Privileges | George Mason University |
A complete listing of all papers presented at this USENIX conference can be found here.
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