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Andrea Di Dio
dblp:342/3705
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0001-6484-7222ORCID · reported
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Security and privacy · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Hardware security and side channels · 94% Systems and software security · 6% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Memory systems · 50% Hardware reliability and fault tolerance · 50% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware security and side channels › fault attacks › fault injection attack
rowhammer attack |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre Gadgets · SP 2025 Copy-on-Flip: Hardening ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks · NDSS 2023 |
Hardware security and side channels
microarchitectural attacks |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre Gadgets · SP 2025 |
Hardware security and side channels › microarchitectural attacks › transient execution attack › speculative execution attack
spectre |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre Gadgets · SP 2025 |
Hardware security and side channels › microarchitectural attacks
transient execution attack |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre Gadgets · SP 2025 |
Systems and software security
memory safety |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre Gadgets · SP 2025 |
Memory systems
DRAM |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Copy-on-Flip: Hardening ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks · NDSS 2023 |
Hardware reliability and fault tolerance › error correction
error-correcting codes |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Copy-on-Flip: Hardening ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks · NDSS 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
copy-on-flip · 1.3page table manipulation · 0.9memory spraying · 0.9cache timing side channel · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Half Spectre, Full Exploit: Hardening Rowhammer Attacks with Half-Spectre GadgetsabstractDespite nearly a decade of mitigation efforts by both industry and academia, the community has yet to find comprehensive and efficient countermeasures against pernicious hardware vulnerabilities such as Spectre and Rowhammer. While Spectre mitigations have mostly focused on patching dangerous disclosure gadgets in high-value codebases such as the Linux kernel, mitigating Rowhammer in software is still challenging and security often hinges on the (im)practicality of real-world attacks. Indeed, some Rowhammer attacks are entirely nondeterministic, triggering random bit flips in the hope of corrupting victim data-but at the risk of corrupting critical data and crashing the system. More reliable attacks rely on techniques such as memory templating and massaging, but achieving fully deterministic behavior is still difficult in face of complex memory management abstractions in both hardware and software. In this paper, we show that fully deterministic Rowhammer attacks are feasible. To this end, we exploit synergies with Spectre and specifically focus our attention on so-called half-Spectre gadgets. We show these gadgets, previously deemed unexploitable on last-generation CPUs due to their inability to directly disclose secret data, do enable powerful disclosure primitives to harden other attacks such as Rowhammer. Specifically, we use half-Spectre gadgets to build Preload+Time, a generic primitive to monitor a controlled victim's physical memory activity at the cache line granularity, without sharing memory with the victim. We use this capability to craft ProbeHammer, the first crash-free end-to-end Rowhammer exploit that does not rely on templating or massaging. In detail, we spray physical memory with aggressor (i.e., user) and victim (i.e., page table) data and disclose their location with Preload+Time. This primitive allows us to select safe hammering patterns and avoid unintended bit flips that may crash the system. Our evaluation confirms ProbeHammer attacks yield no false positives (hence, no crashes) by construction and can compromise real-world systems in a matter of hours. Andrea Di Dio, Mathé Hertogh, Cristiano Giuffrida |
SP | 1 |
| 2023 | Copy-on-Flip: Hardening ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks
Andrea Di Dio, Koen Koning, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida |
NDSS | 1 |