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#9 The Hacker News general September 14, 2026 at 16:58 UTC

New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Researchers disclosed DDRop, a new hardware attack that defeats memory protection in both Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing environments by silently dropping memory writes, causing processors to read stale encrypted data. The attack requires brief physical access and server-level software control, threatening the integrity guarantees that cloud providers rely on for trusted execution environments.

Relevance score: 78.0/100

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