[Stanley]

Phoenix RowHammer Attack Bypasses Advanced DDR5 Memory Protections in 109 Seconds

A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix.
The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1), is capable of bypassing sophisticated protection mechanisms put in place to resist the attack.
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https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/phoeni...asses.html

[Moooookie]

Sounds like viruses are becoming more sophisticated, and advanced as the days go by. Being able to obtain root access on a DDR5 system in less then 2 minutes, is pretty significant and not something to be overlooked. Interested to hear what they will do to improve their anti systems.

[Yanix]

It’s fascinating to see academic teams outpace industry protections. This kind of disclosure is vital to harden chips before attackers weaponize the flaw.

[W1NK1LL3RX]

Impressive research, but concerning, even DDR5 protections aren’t immune to RowHammer attacks.

[oRequiem]

It’s fascinating to see academic teams outpace industry protections. This kind of disclosure is vital to harden chips before attackers weaponize the flaw.

Yeah, it is pretty fascinating 🕵️

[Fish]

I feel like these attacks are getting faster and faster

[jcole]

As cybersecurity advances so do the cyber attacks..

[DAL-SHA]

Those RowHammer findings are alarming — DDR5 protections failing in under two minutes shows hardware attacks remain real threat; urgent fixes needed😵🤯🕵️