I presented “NICraft: Malicious NIC Firmware-based Cache Side-channel Attack” at ESORICS 2025.
We show a cache side-channel launched from the NIC itself. We devised new signal amplification (Aging + Domino) to turn small evictions into a clear timing gap. The attack requires no RDMA/DDIO, no kernel/driver mods.
Thank you for attending and for the great discussion!
Slides: https://github.com/amit-choudhari/NICraft/releases/download/slides/NICraft_esorics.pdf
Paper: https://cispa.saarland/group/rossow/papers/nicraft-esorics2025.pdf
With @rossow and Shorya Kumar
#ESORICS #sidechannel #NIC #SmartNIC

