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New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP With $159 DDR5 Device

DDRop uses a $159 DDR5 RDIMM interposer to silently drop memory writes and break Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.

Researchers published DDRop, a physical attack built from about $159 in parts that uses a custom DDR5 RDIMM interposer to inject parity errors and silently discard selected cache-line writebacks. Intel TDX, Intel Scalable SGX, and AMD SEV-SNP are affected because they lack per-line cryptographic freshness, so processors can accept stale encrypted data as valid state. The team demonstrated deterministic plaintext copying between pages, malicious Secure EPT entry injection, forcing trust domains into debug mode, and forging attestation measurements. The attack requires privileged host control plus brief physical access, and researchers say no simple software patch exists.

Cyber Security News · 1d agoResearch 2 sources

New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access

University of Toronto researchers present GPUThor, a Rowhammer attack that defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A4000-A6000 GDDR6 GPUs and achieves host root access.

GPUThor uses non-uniform hammering to bypass Target Row Refresh and overcome SECDED ECC on NVIDIA Ampere workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory, inducing 72,000 to 377,552 bit flips per gigabyte across RTX A6000, A5000, A4500, and A4000 cards. Triple-bit silent data corruption enables host privilege escalation to root with the IOMMU enabled, reusing GPUBreach page-table corruption techniques, and double-bit DUEs allow escalation when the IOMMU is disabled during a ~10 ms lazy-service window. The attack cut end-to-end escalation time on the A6000 from 21.9 hours to 1.1 minutes. Reported to NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and AWS on April 29, 2026; findings were embargoed until August 25, 2026, and no CVE identifier was assigned.

The Hacker News · 8d agoResearch1

Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX

Perplexity launches Portable Computer local AI agent on Windows for NVIDIA RTX PCs with 24GB+ VRAM, keeping sensitive work on-device.

Perplexity released Portable Computer, a local version of its agentic Perplexity Computer, in its Windows app for NVIDIA GeForce RTX PCs and RTX PRO Workstations with 24GB or more VRAM. It runs a locally post-trained model such as Qwen 3.8 27B optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs, handling multistep tasks and file analysis on-device with a SPACE sandbox and built-in browser. Connectors cover Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, and GitHub, and the agent can escalate to cloud models only with user permission.

NVIDIA Blog · 2d agoAI industry

Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark

NVIDIA announces EA, Embark, and Ubisoft titles plus anti-cheat and visual upgrades for RTX Spark ahead of launch at Gamescom.

NVIDIA is promoting RTX Spark at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, with Electronic Arts, Embark, and Ubisoft bringing blockbuster PC titles to the platform ahead of its launch. The announcement covers new game support, anti-cheat technologies, and increased visual quality. The piece is a product-marketing update rather than security research or AI safety news.

NVIDIA Blog · 22d agoAI industry

AMD security advisory (AV26-879)

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-879 lists vulnerabilities across AMD EPYC, Ryzen, Threadripper, Instinct, and embedded processors, urging updates.

The September 3, 2026 advisory states AMD is affected by processor vulnerabilities as of September 2, 2026, spanning 2nd-4th Gen EPYC, Ryzen 3000-7045 series, Athlon, Threadripper, Radeon PRO V620, Instinct MI300A, and embedded product lines. It specifies required microcode package versions for each affected family and encourages users and administrators to review AMD's links and apply updates as they become available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 13d agoAdvisory

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

vLLM benchmarks speculative decoding on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI355X GPUs across five drafting methods including EAGLE-3 and native MTP.

The vLLM project documents draft-and-verify speculative decoding support for AMD GPUs via ROCm, comparing native MTP, Gemma 4 MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, and DSpark drafting approaches. Output-token throughput effects varied with drafting method, proposal length, model family, draft checkpoint, workload, and acceptance behavior. The post also covers how to enable each method plus practical tuning and observability considerations.

New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data

Researchers built a $200 DDR5 interposer that silently drops memory writes to break TDX, SGX, and SEV-SNP confidential VM integrity, requiring physical access.

Researchers from KU Leuven, ETH Zurich, Durham University, and Google demonstrated DDRop, a hardware interposer costing under $200 that corrupts DDR5 bus commands to silently drop writes to encrypted memory, enabling replay attacks on confidential VMs. Because scalable memory encryption lacks freshness checks, protected VMs keep computing on stale attacker-selected data; on an Intel TDX server the attack forces debug mode for plaintext memory reads or forges attestation reports, succeeding in under two minutes without crashing. Intel and AMD both called the attack out of scope for their cloud threat models, with no mitigation planned, and proposed cache line versioning appears still vulnerable. The full interposer design is being released as open-source hardware.

The Register · Security · 2d agoResearch

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

System76 launches the Thelio Mira AI Linux workstation from $3,299 with dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs and 192 GB GPU memory for local AI workloads.

System76's Thelio Mira AI is a locally built (Denver, Colorado) Linux workstation for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference, starting at $3,299. Configurations go up to a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs delivering 192 GB of (ECC) GPU memory with liquid cooling, dual PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, and up to three M.2 NVMe drives. It ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu and is positioned as a way to avoid recurring cloud GPU costs.

Rockwell Automation ControlLogix, CompactLogix, CompactLogix 5480, GuardLogix, Compact GuardLogix

CISA advisory maps CVE-2021-42260 to Rockwell ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and GuardLogix controllers with firmware below per-series patch levels.

CISA published an ICS advisory associating CVE-2021-42260 with multiple Rockwell Automation controller families: ControlLogix 5580, GuardLogix 5580, CompactLogix 5380, CompactLogix 5480, and Compact GuardLogix 5380. Affected firmware versions fall below 34.015, 35.014, 36.013, and 37.011 depending on the series. The vendor provides updated firmware as remediation.

CISA Advisories · 15d agoAdvisoryCVE-2021-42260

Miles v0.1: Production-Level Post-Training

Radix Ark open-sources Miles v0.1, a full-stack RL post-training framework demonstrated with asynchronous agentic RL on GLM-5.2 744B-A40B across 64 GB300 GPUs.

Miles v0.1 is a full-stack, open-source system for frontier-scale reinforcement-learning post-training, built on slime with rollout engines on SGLang and trainers supporting NVIDIA Megatron-LM and PyTorch FSDP backends plus three weight-synchronization transports. It supports full-parameter RL, LoRA RL, on-policy distillation, supervised fine-tuning, true-on-policy rollout-training alignment, and extends to diffusion models. The end-to-end case study ran fully asynchronous agentic RL on GLM-5.2 744B-A40B for terminal-use coding tasks on 64 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with a median step time of 263 seconds over the first 30 measured steps. The code is open-sourced on GitHub.

Hugging Face daily papers · 9d agoAI tools & infra

Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 Products

CISA advisory: Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 RTUs contain CVE-2026-81861, an insufficiently protected credentials flaw allowing unauthorized access to RTU configuration.

CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-04 discloses CVE-2026-81861 affecting all versions of Schneider Electric SCADAPack 47x, 47xi, 47xd, 470R, 57x, 3xx, and 32 remote terminal units. The CWE-522 insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability could expose authentication information and permit unauthorized access to RTU configuration through the Secure Lock functionality. The flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (medium), and the products are deployed worldwide in critical manufacturing and energy sectors. Abhinav Agarwal reported the vulnerability to CISA.

CISA Advisories · 1d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-81861

Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module

Rockwell's 1756-ENBT ControlLogix EtherNet/IP bridge (all versions) is vulnerable to DoS via crafted CIP packets, crashing the module until manual restart.

CISA republished Rockwell Automation's advisory for CVE-2025-10478, a CWE-754 flaw affecting all versions of the 1756-ENBT ControlLogix EtherNet/IP bridge, scored CVSS 7.5. A crafted CIP packet can crash the module, and the device requires a restart to recover. Affected critical infrastructure sectors include critical manufacturing, food and agriculture, transportation systems, and water. No public exploitation has been reported; CISA recommends minimizing network exposure.

DDRop Attack Forces Intel TDX Confidential VMs Into Debug Mode and Exposes Memory

KU Leuven and ETH Zurich researchers released DDRop PoC hardware that forces Intel TDX confidential VMs into debug mode and exposes plaintext memory.

Researchers from KU Leuven, ETH Zurich, Google, and Durham University published proof-of-concept code, hardware designs, and firmware for DDRop, a DDR5 interposer that injects parity errors to drop selected cache-line writebacks. Because Intel TDX, Intel Scalable SGX, and AMD SEV-SNP lack per-line cryptographic freshness, processors decrypt and accept stale DRAM contents as current state. The PoC flips a victim's ATTRIBUTES.DEBUG flag to enable TDX debug mode, then copies victim memory in plaintext and can forge attestation reports. Affected environments include Intel 5th- and 6th-generation Xeon Scalable with TDX; Intel says the attack falls outside its cloud-computing threat model.

GBHackers · 1d agoResearch

UAT-10147 deploys SPECTRE: A cross-platform implant with Linux rootkit and BYOVD capabilities

Cisco Talos identifies UAT-10147 deploying the SPECTRE implant with cross-platform C2, credential theft, and kernel-level EDR bypass.

Cisco Talos reports that the tracked threat actor UAT-10147 is deploying a newly identified implant named SPECTRE. SPECTRE supports cross-platform command-and-control, process injection, credential theft, and anti-analysis protections. It also includes a Linux rootkit and BYOVD (bring your own vulnerable driver) capability enabling kernel-level EDR bypass, marking an evolution in commodity intrusion tooling.

Cisco Talos · 27d agoThreat actor in the wild

Memory-safety defects in the upstream (abandoned) AOSP OpenCORE AAC decoder, shipped unpatched by Samsung TizenRT

Abandoned AOSP OpenCORE AAC decoder has out-of-bounds-write and wild-pointer flaws reachable from attacker-controlled frames, unpatched in Samsung TizenRT.

The OpenCORE AAC decoder in AOSP's abandoned external/opencore tree contains memory-safety defects of the out-of-bounds-write and wild-pointer class. The code is still vendored and built by multiple projects, most notably Samsung's widely deployed TizenRT embedded RTOS. The defects are reachable from untrusted media because an AAC frame is attacker-controlled. The researcher is requesting a CVE ID for the issue.

oss-security · 7d agoVulnerability1

Rockwell Automation security advisory (AV26-869)

Canada's Cyber Centre flags vulnerabilities across multiple Rockwell Automation ICS products including ControlLogix 5580 and RSLinx Classic.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-869, dated September 1, 2026, lists vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation products: 1756-ENBT Module (all versions), ArmorStart LT (v2.001 and earlier), CompactLogix 5380 / ControlLogix 5580 (V33 and earlier plus several V34-V36 releases), and RSLinx Classic (V4.50 and earlier). It references Rockwell advisories SD1792, SD1794, SD1797, and SD1798 and urges users to apply updates as available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 15d agoAdvisory

Rockwell Automation Logix Platform

CISA warns Rockwell Automation Logix controllers (ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix) up to V36.012 are affected by CVE-2026-9637 (CVSS 7.5).

CISA published ICS advisory ICSA-26-244-03 covering the Rockwell Automation Logix Platform. Affected products include ControlLogix 5580, CompactLogix 5380, GuardLogix 5580, and Compact GuardLogix 5380 running firmware through V33 and selected V34-V36 releases. The underlying vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-9637 with a vendor CVSS v3 score of 7.5. The advisory provides guidance for industrial operators to update affected controllers.

CISA Advisories · 15d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-9637

Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost

Nari Labs claims top Coval voice AI benchmark rankings with low-latency, low-cost Qwen3-ASR and Qwen3-TTS inference endpoints.

Nari Labs says its Qwen3-ASR Fast endpoint ranks #1 in Coval's time-to-final-segment latency (p50 44 ms) with 3.6% WER at $0.12/hour, behind only AssemblyAI Universal 3.5 Pro on accuracy. Its Qwen3-TTS Fast ranks #2 in time-to-first-audio (p50 63 ms) and #1 in WER at 3.8%, priced at $10 per 1M characters. The company reports beating the official Qwen3 TTS Flash Realtime endpoint (8.8% WER, 692 ms median TTFA) and Baseten's dedicated endpoint (6.0% WER, 101 ms). Public beta APIs are moving to paid general availability with $20 in credits for existing accounts.

Cadence: Error-Bounded Lossy Compression of Demand Time Series with a Time-Series Foundation Model

Cadence pairs Google's 330M-parameter TimesFM-3 foundation model with adaptive arithmetic coding, gaining 13-28% on 2026 demand series over classical predictors.

Cadence is an error-bounded lossy compressor for numeric time series combining the 330M-parameter Google TimesFM-3 foundation model with an adaptive arithmetic coder, guaranteeing a per-sample error bound. On 49 EIA-930 balancing-authority demand series from 2026 it gains 13.3% over the best of six classical predictors and 28.3% on 50 MTA ridership series, winning all 297 series-tolerance pairs with a 21.4% median gain. The paper also reports negative results, including that foundation models add negligible value for lossless coding and that PyTorch predictions are not bit-identical across batch sizes.

Hugging Face daily papers · 12d agoAI research1

E-Commerce Access, Vedicline Data, Langflow RCE, ASUS Claim, and Energy Shell Access

SOCRadar reports underground posts claiming a Bangladeshi e-commerce database, Vedicline data leak, Langflow RCE, ASUS breach, and energy-sector shell access.

SOCRadar's Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts, including an alleged Bangladeshi e-commerce customer database offered for sale. The roundup also covers a claimed Vedicline data leak, Langflow remote code execution, an ASUS breach claim, and energy-sector shell access sales. Details on record counts and victims were not provided in the excerpt.

SOCRadar · 9d agoData breach

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

NVIDIA details a three-computer robotaxi platform that Uber, Lyft, May Mobility, Mercedes-Benz and others are adopting to scale autonomous fleets.

NVIDIA says every major commercial robotaxi program runs on its stack, spanning training (DGX with Alpamayo VLA models), simulation and validation (Omniverse, Cosmos, AlpaSim on RTX PRO), and in-vehicle compute (DRIVE Hyperion 10 with dual DRIVE AGX Thor chips). Adding meta-action and chain-of-thought reasoning data to a VLA model reduced minimum average displacement error by 43%, from 2.08 to 1.18. Uber plans NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion-based fleets across 28 cities by 2028, partnering with Autobrains, Avride, Lucid, May Mobility, Mercedes-Benz, Momenta, Nissan, Nuro, Pony.ai, Stellantis, Waabi, Wayve, WeRide and Zoox. DRIVE Hyperion 10 combines 14 cameras, nine radars, three lidars and 12 ultrasonics with redundant compute and NVIDIA Halos safety validation.

NVIDIA Blog · 6d agoAI industry

Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS

NVIDIA's Magpie TTS open-weight multilingual speech model enables low-latency voice agents with full deployment control.

Hugging Face's blog highlights NVIDIA Magpie TTS, an open-weights multilingual text-to-speech model designed for building low-latency voice agents. The open licensing gives developers full deployment control, allowing self-hosted multilingual speech for agentic applications. The post walks through building voice agents with the model.

Hugging Face Blog · Aug 10, 2026Model release

Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Logging Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco patched an ASA/FTD rate-limiting flaw where TCP SYN floods trigger excessive syslog 419002 messages, causing high CPU and degraded performance.

A vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization. The flaw results from improper rate limiting; an attacker can exploit it by sending a flood of TCP SYN packets, degrading device performance. Cisco has released software updates.

Cisco Security Advisories · 12h agoAdvisory 9 sources

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic

CISA flags four flaws (CVE-2026-9621/9622/9624/9625) in Rockwell RSLinx Classic 4.50 and below that can cause denial-of-service conditions; CVSS 8.6.

CISA published an ICS advisory covering four vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic versions 4.50 and below. The integer overflow, underflow, and classic buffer overflow flaws (CVE-2026-9621, CVE-2026-9622, CVE-2026-9624, CVE-2026-9625) could let attackers cause denial-of-service conditions. The product is deployed worldwide, primarily in critical manufacturing.

How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory

NVIDIA argues AI factories with custom XPUs and NVLink Fusion connectivity must optimize tokens-per-second, tokens-per-watt, cost and uptime.

NVIDIA published a blog explaining that AI factories running continuously are economically defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. It argues hyperscalers and AI-native companies building custom XPUs need infrastructure designed as a complete factory rather than collections of individual accelerators. The piece promotes NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion and full-stack XPU connectivity as the foundation for such world-class AI factory builds.

NVIDIA Blog · 23d agoAI industry

What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security

Versa Field CISO details hidden costs of self-hosting open-weight models and a 90-day AI agent security plan of inventory, blast-radius reduction and testing.

In a Help Net Security interview, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, argues running open-weight models in-house improves control but shifts hardening, patching, access control, monitoring and incident response onto the buyer, with underestimated costs in GPU infrastructure, licensing review, EU AI Act compliance and scarce AI/ML security skills. On red-teaming AI agents, he recommends testing prompt injection, indirect injection, excessive permissions, data leakage, memory and RAG poisoning, malicious tool outputs, cross-agent trust abuse and infrastructure attack paths, mapped to OWASP agentic guidance and MITRE ATLAS. He highlights the handoff between chained agents as a major risk zone and stresses exercising human approval, shutdown and rollback controls under test conditions. For teams with 90 days and small budgets, he ranks inventory, blast radius reduction and ongoing testing as the priority order.

Help Net Security · 20d agoAI safety & security

Akamai Valkey Managed Database: Real-Time Memory for Enterprise AI

Akamai launched Valkey Managed Database, a low-latency in-memory data layer aimed at cutting AI inference costs and accelerating RAG.

Akamai introduced Valkey Managed Database, a managed in-memory data service based on the open-source Valkey project. The company positions it as real-time memory for enterprise AI, optimizing inference costs, accelerating retrieval-augmented generation, and powering real-time AI agents.

Akamai Blog · 29d agoAI tools & infra

Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Video Phone 8875 with SIP Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco warns of a DoS flaw in SIP software on Desk Phone 9800 and IP Phone 7800/8800 series from improper HTTP packet memory handling.

Cisco disclosed a denial of service vulnerability affecting Desk Phone 9800 Series, IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Video Phone 8875 devices running Cisco SIP Software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a continuous stream of crafted HTTP packets, causing sustained memory consumption until the device becomes unresponsive. A manual reboot is required to recover an affected device. No CVE identifier was listed in the advisory text.

Cisco Security Advisories · 14d agoAdvisory

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco released a fix for a management-plane flooding DoS in IE-1000 switches that can make the device manager, SSH, or API inaccessible.

Insufficient protection against management plane flooding in Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send high-rate ICMP, SSH, or HTTP traffic, raising CPU usage and causing a denial-of-service condition on the device manager web GUI, SSH, or API. Data traffic through the device is not affected. Cisco has released software updates to address the issue.

Cisco Security Advisories · 28d agoAdvisory

NVIDIA security advisory (AV26-900)

Canada's Cyber Centre flags NVIDIA Triton Inference Server versions through 26.03 and 26.06 as vulnerable, urging review of the September 2026 bulletin.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued advisory AV26-900 on September 9, 2026, noting that as of September 8, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server versions 0.0 to 26.03 and 0.0 to 26.06 are affected by vulnerabilities. The advisory includes no CVE identifiers or severity details and directs users to review NVIDIA's September 2026 Triton security bulletin and apply available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 7d agoAdvisory