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Andrea Di Dio

@hammertux

PhD Candidate in Computer Systems and Security @vu5ec / @VUamsterdam

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If you're interested in #Rowhammer and #FlipFengShui and want to read about building an exploit, you can read about it at hammertux.github.io/rowhammer-ffs-…. Feedback/Suggestions are very welcome :) 2/2


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We are still looking for (self) nominations for @USENIXSecurity '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! Please help us spread the word 🚀 You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUKtK…


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No award in 2025? Here is another chance: @chwress, Deepak Kumar, and I are looking for (self) nominations for @USENIXSecurity '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! Remember to fill the nomination form by Friday, October 17: forms.gle/sMCJHww2qcUKtK… And, help us spread the word!🚀

Congratulations to @USENIXSecurity 2025 AE: 🏆Distinguished Artifact Awards 🏆Distinguished Reviewer Awards ⭐Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition 🥷Ninja Reviewer Recognition secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/… And thank you all for your help! secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/… CC @pvadrevu TiagoHeinrich

AuroreFass's tweet image. Congratulations to @USENIXSecurity 2025 AE:
🏆Distinguished Artifact Awards
🏆Distinguished Reviewer Awards
⭐Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition
🥷Ninja Reviewer Recognition
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

And thank you all for your help!
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

CC @pvadrevu TiagoHeinrich
AuroreFass's tweet image. Congratulations to @USENIXSecurity 2025 AE:
🏆Distinguished Artifact Awards
🏆Distinguished Reviewer Awards
⭐Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition
🥷Ninja Reviewer Recognition
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

And thank you all for your help!
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

CC @pvadrevu TiagoHeinrich
AuroreFass's tweet image. Congratulations to @USENIXSecurity 2025 AE:
🏆Distinguished Artifact Awards
🏆Distinguished Reviewer Awards
⭐Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition
🥷Ninja Reviewer Recognition
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

And thank you all for your help!
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

CC @pvadrevu TiagoHeinrich
AuroreFass's tweet image. Congratulations to @USENIXSecurity 2025 AE:
🏆Distinguished Artifact Awards
🏆Distinguished Reviewer Awards
⭐Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition
🥷Ninja Reviewer Recognition
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

And thank you all for your help!
secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/…

CC @pvadrevu TiagoHeinrich


Andrea Di Dio reposted

Slides and recording from my "SLUB Internals for Exploit Developers" talk at @LinuxSecSummit yesterday 🥳 Slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d… Slides PDF: static.sched.com/hosted_files/l… Recording: youtu.be/WWQh4yAoXME?t=…

andreyknvl's tweet image. Slides and recording from my "SLUB Internals for Exploit Developers" talk at @LinuxSecSummit yesterday 🥳

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d…
Slides PDF: static.sched.com/hosted_files/l…
Recording: youtu.be/WWQh4yAoXME?t=…

Gonna be giving a talk "SLUB Internals for Exploit Developers" at @LinuxSecSummit next week. Plan to cover the basics one needs to know before writing exploits for slab bugs; slides coming along 😁 Also gonna stay around for @linuxplumbers. lsseu2024.sched.com/event/1ebVN

andreyknvl's tweet image. Gonna be giving a talk "SLUB Internals for Exploit Developers" at @LinuxSecSummit next week.

Plan to cover the basics one needs to know before writing exploits for slab bugs; slides coming along 😁

Also gonna stay around for @linuxplumbers.

lsseu2024.sched.com/event/1ebVN


Andrea Di Dio reposted

Just a few days left to apply to our PhD and PostDoc positions available at @vu5ec. If you love low-level systems hacking and would you like to work at a top systems security research group in Amsterdam, consider applying: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-…


Andrea Di Dio reposted

This took a significant amount of time and money, and now we know what DRAM vendors are doing in their sense amplifiers! Lots of research opportunities moving forward. All the images and the reverse engineered circuits are now publicly available.

For the first time, we imaged and reverse engineered 6 modern DDR4/5 DRAM chips (comsec.ethz.ch/hifi-dram) Due to the incredibly small feature size of modern ICs, we use SEM combined with FIB reaching pixel resolutions as low as 3.4nm. Then we evaluate 10 years of DRAM research.



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If you ever happen to look for Spectre gadgets manually and feel pain and loneliness, you should check github.com/vusec/inspectr… ... It's been a wild ride, but working with @SanWieb was the best thing ever :) Also, BHI is back baby

Branch History Injection (BHI) is back! Disclosing Native BHI, bypassing deployed Spectre-v2/BHI mitigations (e.g., eBPF=off) to leak arbitrary kernel/host memory (e.g., root password hash below). Joint work by @SanWieb @HBitmasks @herbertbos @c_giuffrida: vusec.net/projects/nativ…



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Oh, it seems the video of my NDSS keynote is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=vhj2We… "Corrupted Memories of Memory Corruption: Offensive Security, Academia, and the Rest of the World"

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NDSS 2024 Keynote - Corruption of Memory: Those who don’t know...


Andrea Di Dio reposted

Should we lose hope already on Rowhammer attacks? Andrea Di Dio from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is showing us at #NDSS23 that it is feasible to devise a software-based design to mitigate ECC-aware Rowhammer attacks.

NDSSSymposium's tweet image. Should we lose hope already on Rowhammer attacks? Andrea Di Dio from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is showing us at #NDSS23 that it is feasible to devise a software-based design to mitigate ECC-aware Rowhammer attacks.

Happy to share that my latest paper, Copy-on-Flip, has been accepted @NDSSSymposium. If you're interested in #Rowhammer defenses you can check it out here:download.vusec.net/papers/cof_nds…. Big thanks to the other authors who helped out on the paper: Koen Koning, @herbertbos @c_giuffrida.


Andrea Di Dio reposted

🏆 SIAMO NOI, SIAMO NOI, I CAMPIONI DELL'ITALIA SIAMO NOI! 🇮🇹 🏆 #SassuoloMilan #SempreMilan #AlwaysWithYou

acmilan's tweet image. 🏆 SIAMO NOI, SIAMO NOI, I CAMPIONI DELL'ITALIA SIAMO NOI! 🇮🇹 🏆

#SassuoloMilan #SempreMilan
#AlwaysWithYou

Buzzing to announce that I have completed my MSc and have started my PhD at @vu5ec last week. I am very grateful for the opportunity given and thrilled to continue to do research on topics I am passionate about.


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Please vaccinate. I have no desire to learn the entire Greek alphabet.


IT'S COMING ROME 🇮🇹♥️ #ForzaAzzuri


Andrea Di Dio reposted

📢 THE TIME HAS COME📢 Today I make public ALL *recordings* and updated slides (+ FAQ) for my mobile security class, MOBISEC 2020! Everything is available, for free, at: mobisec.reyammer.io/slides! Few words about this release in a short thread 👇


Andrea Di Dio reposted

OK I didn't appreciate how jam-packed this thing is from @iFixit teardown photos. Also it's 0.3mm PCB so I'm pretty sure I broke some solder joints getting it out. Test pads are accessible w/o removing PCB so if this one isn't working will test another one.

colinoflynn's tweet image. OK I didn't appreciate how jam-packed this thing is from @iFixit teardown photos. Also it's 0.3mm PCB so I'm pretty sure I broke some solder joints getting it out. Test pads are accessible w/o removing PCB so if this one isn't working will test another one.
colinoflynn's tweet image. OK I didn't appreciate how jam-packed this thing is from @iFixit teardown photos. Also it's 0.3mm PCB so I'm pretty sure I broke some solder joints getting it out. Test pads are accessible w/o removing PCB so if this one isn't working will test another one.
colinoflynn's tweet image. OK I didn't appreciate how jam-packed this thing is from @iFixit teardown photos. Also it's 0.3mm PCB so I'm pretty sure I broke some solder joints getting it out. Test pads are accessible w/o removing PCB so if this one isn't working will test another one.

Andrea Di Dio reposted

New motivational blogpost + slides, this time on self-confidence, the noob mindset, and tip & tricks for CTFs! (Target audience: young students) 'From Noob to Less Noob: "Wisdom" from 10 years of CTFs' reyammer.io/blog/2021/04/0… Hope you find at least one good idea, enjoy! :-)


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