Wow. Is this really as bad as it sounds? I'm no security researcher but this sounds quite bad:

"AtomBombing is performed just by using the underlying Windows mechanisms. There is no need to exploit operating system bugs or vulnerabilities.

Since the issue cannot be fixed, there is no notion of a patch for this"

I'm guessing that if this starts to be a popular attack vector, security firms would try to come up with some sort of atom integrity checker or something, but still, this doesn't look good.

Or am I missing something and maybe it's really not that bad? any one has any resources to read up more on atoms (besides the research paper)?