Daniel Moghimi — Publications

Phoenix: Rowhammer Attacks on DDR5 with Self-Correcting Synchronization Diego Meyer, Patrick Jattke, Michele Marazzi, Salman Qazi, Daniel Moghimi, Kaveh Razavi. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2026 [BibTeX]

DroidCCT: Cryptographic Compliance Test via Trillion-Scale Measurement Daniel Moghimi, Remi Audebert, Pedro Barbosa, Borbala Benko, Elie Bursztein, Alexandru-Cosmin Mihai, Laszlo Siroki, Kurt Thomas, Catherine Vlasov. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2025), 2025 [BibTeX]
ExfilState: Automated Discovery of Timer-Free Cache Side Channels on ARM CPUs Fabian Thomas, Michael Torres, Daniel Moghimi, Michael Schwarz. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2025), 2025 [BibTeX]
SMaCk: Efficient Instruction Cache Attacks via Self-Modifying Code Conflicts Seonghun Son, Daniel Moghimi, Berk Gulmezoglu. ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025 [BibTeX]

Generalized Power Attacks Against Crypto Hardware Using Long-Range Deep Learning Elie Bursztein, Luca Invernizzi, Karel Král, Daniel Moghimi, Jean-Michel Picod, Marina Zhang. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2024 [BibTeX]
Hardware-Assisted Fault Isolation: Going Beyond the Limits of Software-Based Sandboxing Tal Garfinkel, Joey Rudek, Evan Johnson, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. IEEE Micro, 2024 [BibTeX]
SoothSayer: Bypassing DSAC Mitigation by Predicting Counter Replacement Salman Qazi, Daniel Moghimi. DRAMSec, 2024 [BibTeX]
Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor Hosein Yavarzadeh, Archit Agarwal, Max Christman, Christina Garman, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Kwong, Daniel Moghimi, Deian Stefan, Kazem Taram, Dean Tullsen. ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024 [BibTeX]

Downfall: Exploiting Speculative Data Gathering Daniel Moghimi. USENIX Security Symposium, 2023 [BibTeX]
NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems Zixuan Wang, Mohammadkazem Taram, Daniel Moghimi, Steven Swanson, Dean Tullsen, Jishen Zhao. USENIX Security Symposium, 2023 [BibTeX]
Going Beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI Shravan Narayan, Tal Garfinkel, Mohammadkazem Taram, Joey Rudek, Daniel Moghimi, Evan Johnson, Chris Fallin, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Michael LeMay, Ravi Sahita, others. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 3, 2023 [BibTeX]

A Turning Point for Verified Spectre Sandboxing Sunjay Cauligi, Marco Guarnieri, Daniel Moghimi, Deian Stefan, Marco Vassena. arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01548, 2022 [BibTeX]
SoK: Practical Foundations for Software Spectre Defenses Sunjay Cauligi, Craig Disselkoen, Daniel Moghimi, Gilles Barthe, Deian Stefan. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022 [BibTeX]
EVAX: Towards a Practical, Pro-Active & Adaptive Architecture for High Performance & Security Samira Mirbagher Ajorpaz, Daniel Moghimi, Jeffrey Neal Collins, Gilles Pokam, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dean Tullsen. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022 [BibTeX]

Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly Against Spectre Shravan Narayan, Craig Disselkoen, Daniel Moghimi, Sunjay Cauligi, Evan Johnson, Zhao Gang, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Ravi Sahita, Hovav Shacham, Tullsen Dean, others. USENIX Security Symposium, 2021 [BibTeX]

Revisiting Isolated and Trusted Execution via Microarchitectural Cryptanalysis Daniel Moghimi. PhD Dissertation, 2020 [BibTeX]
LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution Through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection Jo Van Bulck, Daniel Moghimi, Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lippi, Marina Minkin, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Berk Sunar, Daniel Gruss, Frank Piessens. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020 [BibTeX]
CopyCat: Controlled Instruction-Level Attacks on Enclaves Daniel Moghimi, Jo Van Bulck, Nadia Heninger, Frank Piessens, Berk Sunar. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 [BibTeX]
Medusa: Microarchitectural Data Leakage via Automated Attack Synthesis Daniel Moghimi, Moritz Lipp, Berk Sunar, Michael Schwarz. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 [BibTeX]
TPM-FAIL: TPM Meets Timing and Lattice Attacks Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, Nadia Heninger. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 [BibTeX]
JackHammer: Efficient Rowhammer on Heterogeneous FPGA-CPU Platforms Zane Weissman, Thore Tiemann, Daniel Moghimi, Evan Custodio, Thomas Eisenbarth, Berk Sunar. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2020 [BibTeX]

ZombieLoad: Cross-Privilege-Boundary Data Sampling Michael Schwarz, Lipp Moritz, Daniel Moghimi, Jo Van Bulck, Julian Stecklina, Thomas Prescher, Daniel Gruss. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019 [BibTeX]
Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-Resistant CPUs Claudio Canella, Daniel Genkin, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Marina Minkin, Daniel Moghimi, Frank Piessens, Michael Schwarz, Berk Sunar, others. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019 [BibTeX]
SPOILER: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks Saad Islam, Ahmad Moghimi, Ida Bruhns, Moritz Krebbel, Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth, Berk Sunar. USENIX Security Symposium, 2019 [BibTeX]
MemJam: A False Dependency Attack Against Constant-Time Crypto Implementations Ahmad Moghimi, Jan Wichelmann, Thomas Eisenbarth, Berk Sunar. International Journal of Parallel Programming, 2019 [BibTeX]
Fortuneteller: Predicting Microarchitectural Attacks via Unsupervised Deep Learning Berk Gulmezoglu, Ahmad Moghimi, Thomas Eisenbarth, Berk Sunar. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03651, 2019 [BibTeX]

Microwalk: A Framework for Finding Side Channels in Binaries Jan Wichelmann, Ahmad Moghimi, Thomas Eisenbarth, Berk Sunar. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018 [BibTeX]
CacheQuote: Efficiently Recovering Long-Term Secrets of SGX EPID via Cache Attacks Fergus Dall, Gabrielle De Micheli, Thomas Eisenbarth, Daniel Genkin, Nadia Heninger, Ahmad Moghimi, Yuval Yarom. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2018 [BibTeX]

Side-Channel Attacks on Intel SGX: How SGX Amplifies the Power of Cache Attacks Ahmad Moghimi. Masters Theses, 2017 [BibTeX]
CacheZoom: How SGX Amplifies the Power of Cache Attacks Ahmad Moghimi, Gorka Irazoqui, Thomas Eisenbarth. International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2017 [BibTeX]