New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access

BleepingComputer by Bill Toulas 26 August 2026, 21:48 EEST Security

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.

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