Rowhammer Backdoor Injection Attack During Inference (Northeastern)

Researchers from Northeastern University published a technical paper titled “ROBBIN: Rowhammer-Based Backdoor Injection during Inference.”

Abstract excerpt:

“This work presents ROBBIN, a hardware-aware Rowhammer-based backdoor injection attack that integrates the device-specific vulnerability into the backdoor construction process. ROBBIN first characterizes the bit-flip patterns of a target DRAM and uses this information to iteratively select DRAM page mappings for the model weights that would maximize ASR while preserving TA under Rowhammering. By treating every hammering-induced bit-flip as an integral part of the attack design rather than first constructing a hardware-agnostic backdoor and dismissing collateral flips as side effects, ROBBIN produces backdoors that remain robust across devices.”

Find the technical paper here. August 2026.

Roy, Saion K., Yufei Wang, Aidong A. Ding, and Yunsi Fei. “ROBBIN: Rowhammer-Based Backdoor Injection during Inference.” arXiv, August 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.23774.

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