Fabian Thomas

Fabian Thomas

PhD Student

Hi, I'm a PhD student at Saarland University working at CISPA. My research topics are Rowhammer, side channels and transient execution. I spent my free time either playing Volleyball or hacking on my GNU/Linux setup. For the latter checkout the blog on my page.

Publications


2025
Rapid Reversing of Non-Linear CPU Cache Slice Functions: Unlocking Physical Address Leakage

Mikka Rainer, Lorenz Hetterich, Fabian Thomas, Tristan Hornetz, Leon Trampert, Lukas Gerlach, Michael Schwarz

S&P

San

Francisco,

California,

USA,

May 12-15

2025

ShadowLoad: Injecting State into Hardware Prefetchers

Lorenz Hetterich, Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Ruiyi Zhang, Nils Bernsdorf, Eduard Ebert, Michael Schwarz

ASPLOS

Rotterdam,

Netherlands,

March 30-April1 3

2025


2023
Indirect Meltdown: Building Novel Side-Channel Attacks from Transient Execution Attacks

Daniel Weber, Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

Reviving Meltdown 3a

Daniel Weber, Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

A Rowhammer Reproduction Study Using the Blacksmith Fuzzer

Lukas Gerlach, Fabian Thomas, Robert Pietsch, Michael Schwarz

ESORICS

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

September 25-29

2023

PDFCITE
Hammulator: Simulate Now - Exploit Later

Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach, Michael Schwarz

DRAMSec

Virtual,

June 17

2023

Talks


2024
From Rowhammer to GhostWrite: Advanced Exploitation and Discovery of Hardware Bugs

Fabian Thomas, Lukas Gerlach

hardwear.io

The

Hague,

The

Netherlands,

October 25

2024

CITEINFO
Arbitrary Data Manipulation and Leakage with CPU Zero-Day Bugs on RISC-V

Fabian Thomas, Lorenz Hetterich, Ruiyi Zhang, Michael Schwarz

Black Hat USA

Las

Vegas,

USA,

August 7

2024

CITEINFO