> New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access
[AUTHOR: Bill Toulas]
[DATE: 26/08/2026 18:48]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]