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most citedDNN-Defender: A Victim-Focused In-DRAM Defense Mechanism for Taming Adversarial Weight Attack on DNNs

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cs.CR2025

CacheTrap: Unveiling a Stealthier Gray-Box Trojan against LLMs

Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Abeer Matar A. Almalky, Gamana Aragonda +6

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has sparked growing interest in understanding their security vulnerabilities, particularly Trojan attacks that enable stealthy…

cs.CR2025

EIM-TRNG: Obfuscating Deep Neural Network Weights with Encoding-in-Memory True Random Number Generator via RowHammer

Ranyang Zhou, Abeer Matar A. Almalky, Gamana Aragonda +4

True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) play a fundamental role in hardware security, cryptographic systems, and data protection. In the context of Deep NeuralNetworks (DNNs), safegu…

cs.AR2024

Compromising the Intelligence of Modern DNNs: On the Effectiveness of Targeted RowPress

Ranyang Zhou, Jacqueline T. Liu, Sabbir Ahmed +2

Recent advancements in side-channel attacks have revealed the vulnerability of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to malicious adversarial weight attacks. The well-studied RowHamme…

cs.CR2024

DRAM-Profiler: An Experimental DRAM RowHammer Vulnerability Profiling Mechanism

Ranyang Zhou, Jacqueline T. Liu, Nakul Kochar +3

RowHammer stands out as a prominent example, potentially the pioneering one, showcasing how a failure mechanism at the circuit level can give rise to a significant and pervasive se…

cs.AR2023

DRAM-Locker: A General-Purpose DRAM Protection Mechanism against Adversarial DNN Weight Attacks

Ranyang Zhou, Sabbir Ahmed, Arman Roohi +2

In this work, we propose DRAM-Locker as a robust general-purpose defense mechanism that can protect DRAM against various adversarial Deep Neural Network (DNN) weight attacks affect…

cs.AR2023

Enabling Normally-off In-Situ Computing with a Magneto-Electric FET-based SRAM Design

Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Ranyang Zhou +4

As an emerging post-CMOS Field Effect Transistor, Magneto-Electric FETs (MEFETs) offer compelling design characteristics for logic and memory applications, such as high-speed switc…

cs.AR2023

Threshold Breaker: Can Counter-Based RowHammer Prevention Mechanisms Truly Safeguard DRAM?

Ranyang Zhou, Jacqueline Liu, Sabbir Ahmed +3

This paper challenges the existing victim-focused counter-based RowHammer detection mechanisms by experimentally demonstrating a novel multi-sided fault injection attack technique…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

DNN-Defender: A Victim-Focused In-DRAM Defense Mechanism for Taming Adversarial Weight Attack on DNNs

Ranyang Zhou, Sabbir Ahmed, Adnan Siraj Rakin +1

With deep learning deployed in many security-sensitive areas, machine learning security is becoming progressively important. Recent studies demonstrate attackers can exploit system…