Security Assessment of ARM Desktop CPUs
Reverse-engineering Snapdragon X Elite microarchitecture to mount side-channel attacks.
Advisor: Prof. Daniel Genkin, Georgia Tech · Aug 2024 – Apr 2025
Worked toward mounting side-channel attacks by reverse-engineering ARM-based Snapdragon desktop CPUs.
- Reverse-engineered microarchitectural components such as prefetchers and the Return Stack Buffer (RSB) using custom kernel modules on Snapdragon X Elite processors.
- Targeted attacks including RSB-based Spectre.