14 September 2026 - 18:04

Category: IT Fail

Hardware Security Proves A Total Myth

The lovely DDRop flaw allows hypervisors to simply walk through Intel and AMD cloud enclaves. Why do we even bother paying for secure hardware?

Hardware Security Proves A Total Myth. The lovely DDRop flaw allows hypervisors to simply walk through Intel and AMD cloud enclaves. Why do we even bother paying for secure hardware?

Source: The Hacker News

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Here we go again, as cloud virtual machines running Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP discover their fancy memory isolation means delightfully little against DDRop. Anyone trusting these supposedly impenetrable enclaves gets the joy of seeing hypervisor-level adversaries casually lift sensitive data straight out of memory. If you fancy safeguarding your workloads from this mess, you are left desperately trying to bar rogue threat actors from taking over the hypervisor itself. Splendid work all round.

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