{
  "id": 3706040,
  "title": "New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/new-gputhor-rowhammer-defeats-ecc-on-nvidia-rtx-a6000-to-gain-host",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T08:13:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/gputhor-rowhammer-defeats-ecc-on-nvidia.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS) and privilege escalation to a root shell. Dubbed GPUThor, the attack was developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, who hammered four DRAM",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}