New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit

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  • Original (extern): Link oeffnen
  • Veroeffentlicht: 2026-07-21 11:24 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-07-27 14:20 UTC
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A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in.

That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 2026, the IACR's hardware-security conference, and the evidence splits in two: they measured the power

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