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🚨 A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM to bypass the latest defenses on Intel and AMD cloud processors. "We built a simple, $50 interposer that sits quietly in the memory path, behaving transparently during startup and passing all trust checks," researchers Jesse De Meulemeester, David Oswald, Ingrid And just like that billions invested in HW security gone, back to the drawing table for Intel and AMD, and those researchers... making this public before a solution is deployed, not cool.