Undervolting Attack That Exploits The Vulnerability Of Chips During Brownout Conditions (Worcester Polytechnic, RUB)


A new technical paper titled "Chypnosis: Stealthy Secret Extraction using Undervolting-based Static Side-channel Attacks" was published by researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Ruhr University Bochum. Abstract: "Static side-channel analysis attacks, which rely on a stopped clock to extract sensitive information, pose a growing threat to embedded systems' security. To protect a... » read more

Security Threats To Multitenant FPGAs: A Remote Undervolting Attack That Activates A Trojan Concealed Within A Victim Design 


A technical paper titled “X-Attack 2.0: The Risk of Power Wasters and Satisfiability Don’t-Care Hardware Trojans to Shared Cloud FPGAs” was published by researchers at EPFL, Cyber-Defence Campus (Switzerland), and Northwestern Polytechnical University (China). Abstract: "Cloud computing environments increasingly provision field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their programmability ... » read more