I'm happy to announce our work has been accepted at ESORICS 2026: "A Systematic Look at Quality-of-Service Feature Effects on Side Channels in AMD SEV-SNP" Thanks to Carina Fiedler, @rayiizzz.bsky.social, @supersingular.bsky.social, @misc0110.bsky.social, and @gruss.cc for a fun collaboration!

I'm excited to announce that my first first-author paper is accepted at NDSS 2026 🥳. Eviction Notice: Reviving and Advancing Page Cache Attacks Check it out at: snee.la/posts/evicti... @snee.la, @notimaginary.bsky.social, Lukas Maar, @gruss.cc from @isec-tugraz.bsky.social, @tugraz.bsky.social

Eviction Notice: Reviving and Advancing Page Cache Attacks

Foreword This blog post is a summarized and introductory write up of our paper recently accepted at NDSS 2026, “Eviction Notice: Reviving and Advancing Page Cache Attacks”. Read the full paper here. A...

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Today we reveal StackWarp: a new CPU vulnerability exploiting a synchronization bug in AMD’s stack engine across Zen 1–5 CPUs. It enables deterministic manipulation of Confidential VM's stack pointer, allowing RCE and privilege escalation via both control- and data-flow hijacking.

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CFP for uASC 25 is still open. We have rolling reviews, and 1 submission is already accepted. If you have interesting results on microarchitecture security (incl. weak threat models or reproducing prior work), check out the CFP at uasc.cc The CFP closes **Jan 28**