Amplifying side channels through performance degradation
Thomas Allan, Billy Bob Brumley, Katrina E. Falkner, Joop van de Pol, Yuval Yarom · 2016
Interference between processes executing on shared hardware can be used to mount performance-degradation attacks. However, in most cases, such attacks offer little benefit for the adversary. In this paper, we demonstrate that software-based performance-degradation attacks can be used to amplify side-channel leaks, enabling the adversary to increase both the amount and the quality of information captured.