Timing Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures in CPU Microarchitectures

J Zhang, C Chen, J Cui, K Li - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Microarchitectural vulnerabilities, such as Meltdown and Spectre, exploit subtle
microarchitecture state to steal the user's secret data and even compromise the operating …

Synchronization Storage Channels ({{{{{S2C)}}}}}: Timer-less Cache {Side-Channel} Attacks on the Apple M1 via Hardware Synchronization Instructions

J Yu, A Dutta, T Jaeger, D Kohlbrenner… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Shared caches have been a prime target for mounting crossprocess/core side-channel
attacks. Fundamentally, these attacks require a mechanism to accurately observe changes …

{Invalidate+ Compare}: A {Timer-Free}{GPU} Cache Attack Primitive

Z Zhang, K Cai, Y Guo, F Yao, X Gao - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
While extensive research has been conducted on CPU cache side-channel attacks, the
landscape of similar studies on modern GPUs remains largely uncharted. In this paper, we …

Non-Fusion Based Coherent Cache Randomization Using Cross-Domain Accesses

K Ramkrishnan, S McCamant, A Zhai… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Randomization has proven to be a effective defense against conflict-based side-channel
attacks in a shared cache. It improves security by assigning a unique randomization scheme …

Principled approaches for mitigating micro-architectural side-channel attacks

J Yu - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
Micro-architectural side-channel attacks are a critical security threat that arises as a result of
modern processors' pursuit of performance and efficiency. In those attacks, malicious actors …

MARF: A Memory-Aware CLFLUSH-Based Intra-and Inter-CPU Side-Channel Attack

S Kim, M Han, W Baek - European Symposium on Research in Computer …, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we conduct in-depth characterization to quantify the impact of DRAM refresh,
the location of the target memory object within a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node …