New CacheWarp AMD CPU attack lets hackers gain root in Linux VMs

November 14, 2023 at 03:34PM CacheWarp, a new software-based fault injection attack, allows threat actors to hack into AMD SEV-protected virtual machines. The attack exploits vulnerabilities in AMD’s SEV-ES and SEV-SNP technology, designed to protect against malicious hypervisors. Malicious actors can manipulate memory writes to escalate privileges and gain remote code execution. Security researchers have … Read more