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Matej Bölcskei has received an ETH medal for his master’s thesis on automatic RTL bug injection which resulted in a paper at USENIX Security. The ETH medal is awarded to the very top master theses every year. Congratulations!

A little while a go we wrote a paper about security problems in the microcode implementation and application of the IBPB instruction which acts as an important mechanism to mitigate different Spectre variants. As part of this work, we also built the first-ever cross-process Spectre attack that works on a real target. Furthermore, we showed…

REFault won the Best Paper Award at the 1st Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC ’25). REFault builds an open-source solutions that turns commodity systems into research platforms for DDR5 memory.

ProTRR has been awarded the “Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security”. ProTRR is the first principled in-DRAM mitigation against Rowhammer attacks. It has heavily influenced the design of follow-up work on secure mitigations in both academia and industry. From the award website, Top Picks recognizes the best of the best in hardware security, spanning…

The PhD dissertation of Flavien Solt has won an ETH medal, given to the top 8% of dissertations at ETH Zurich. Congratulations!

The bachelor thesis of Max Wipfli on building Rowhammer attacks on AMD CPUs has won a best BSc award in the department. Congratulations! The new attack, that we called ZenHammer, could also trigger the first publicly known DDR5 bit flip on AMD Zen4-based platform. We later published an extended version of Max’s thesis at USENIX…