News Robot Steals RAM Data by Freezing Chips in Chilling Cybersecurity Demo

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Cybersecurity researcher Ang Cui demonstrates a new robot he’s created that automates the process of stealing data from RAM by freezing chips.

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[atomicWAR]

007 scoffs at automating such artistic spy craft....

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

This link in your article I think is not working (page not found). Because it is a Forum link : The Register

This one is the original:

Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling tech

'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor

www.theregister.com

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

So according to the concept, they are bypassing manufacturer mitigations, by disabling Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) debugging interfaces and Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) circuitry, using encrypted firmware, and the use of ball grid array (BGA) packaging.

 

[bit_user]

So according to the concept, they are bypassing manufacturer mitigations, by disabling Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) debugging interfaces and Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) circuitry, using encrypted firmware, and the use of ball grid array (BGA) packaging.

Yeah, I think it's like just taking a hot DRAM chip, full of data, and swapping it from one host machine to another.