New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort

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Existing crypto software “wholly unequipped” to counter Rowhammer attacks. The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’s a technique that’s so surgical and controlled that it allows one machine to effectively steal the cryptographic keys of another machine hosted in the same cloud environment.