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LLMs ain't making life any easierAbusing Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs

Tsung-Yin Hsieh, Ben Nassi, Vitaly Shmatikov, and Eugene Bagdasaryan

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Tree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically

Anay Mehrotra, Manolis Zampetakis, Paul Kassianik, Blaine Nelson, Hyrum Anderson, Yaron Singer, and Amin Karbasi

[Paper] [Code]

Avoiding the basilisk's fangs: State-of-the-art in AI LLM detection

Jacob Torrey

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Dystopian much: The Rise of the Influence Machines

Nea Paw

[Blog] [Video]

Problems in well-trodden areasSMTP Smuggling – Spoofing E-mails Worldwide

Timo Longin

[Blog] [Video]

Blind CSS Exfiltration: Exfiltrate unknown web pages

Gareth Heyes

[Slides] [Blog] [Code]

OLE object are still dangerous today – Exploiting Microsoft Office

wh1tc and Zhiniang Peng

[Slides] [Demo Videos]

The Nightmare of Apple’s OTA Update

Mickey Jin

[Slides] [Blog] [Video]

Reflecting on our effortsEvaluating the Security Posture of Real-World FIDO2 Deployments

Dhruv Kuchhal, Muhammad Saad, Adam Oest, and Frank Li

[Paper]

Talking about Pros and Cons

Jacob Torrey

[Slides] [Video]

NCC Group’s 2022 & 2023 Research Report

NCC Group

[Paper] [Blog]

A 3-Year Tale of Hacking a Pwn2Own Target: The Attacks, Vendor Evolution, and Lessons Learned

Orange Tsai

[Slides] [Video]

Nifty sundriesBreaking "DRM" in Polish trains

MrTick, Redford, and q3k

[Video]

Detection and Blocking with BPF via YAML

Kevin Sheldrake

[Slides] [Code]

AntiFake: Using Adversarial Audio to Prevent Unauthorized Speech Synthesis

Zhiyuan Yu, Shixuan Zhai, and Ning Zhang

[Paper] [Code]

A Good Fishman Knows All the Angles: A Critical Evaluation of Google's Phishing Page Classifier

Changqing Miao, Jianan Feng, Wei You, Wenchang Shi, Jianjun Huang, and Bin Liang

[Paper] [Code]

Spoofing DNS Records by Abusing DHCP DNS Dynamic Updates

Ori David

[Blog] [Code] 

Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers

Boris Larin, Leonid Bezvershenko, and Georgy Kucherin

[Blog] [Video]

Password-Stealing without Hacking: Wi-Fi Enabled Practical Keystroke Eavesdropping

Jingyang Hu, Hongbo Wang, Tianyue Zheng, Jingzhi Hu, Zhe Chen, Hongbo Jiang, and Jun Luo

[Paper] [Code]

Cryptography still isn’t easycertmitm: automatic exploitation of TLS certificate validation vulnerabilities

Aapo Oksman

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Escaping Phishermen Nets: Cryptographic Methods Unveiled in the Fight Against Reverse Proxy Attacks

Ksandros Apostoli

[Blog]

mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong

Michael Stepankin

[Slides] [Blog]

Ultrablue: User-friendly Lightweight TPM Remote Attestation over Bluetooth

Nicolas Bouchinet, Loïc Buckwell, and Gabriel Kerneis

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

HECO: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler

Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Miro Haller, and Anwar Hithnawi

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

[Continued] attack of the side-channelsFreaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings

Evangelos Bitsikas, Theodor Schnitzler, Christina Pöpper, and Aanjhan Ranganathan

[Paper] [Code]

Downfall: Exploiting Speculative Data Gathering

Daniel Moghimi

[Code] [Paper] 

Your Clocks Have Ears – Timing-Based Browser-Based Local Network Port Scanner

Dongsung Kim

[Slides] [Demo] [Video]

Composition is hard in the cloudUsing Cloudflare to bypass Cloudflare

Florian Schweitzer and Stefan Proksch

[Blog] 

The GitHub Actions Worm: Compromising GitHub repositories through the Actions dependency tree

Asaf Greenholts

[Slides] [Blog] [Video]

All You Need is Guest

Michael Bargury

[Slides] [Code]

Nifty sundriesContactless Overflow: Critical contactless vulnerabilities in NFC readers used in point of sales and ATMs

Josep Pi Rodriguez

[Slides] [Video]

Defender-Pretender: When Windows Defender Updates Become a Security Risk

Omer Attias and Tomer Bar

[Slides] [Code] 

Fuzz target generation using LLMs

Dongge Liu, Jonathan Metzman, and Oliver Chang

[Results] [Report] [Blog]

Route to Bugs: Analyzing the Security of BGP Message Parsing

Daniel dos Santos, Simon Guiot, Stanislav Dashevskyi, Amine Amri, and Oussama Kerro

[Slides] [Code]

It was harder to sniff Bluetooth through my mask during the pandemic…

Xeno Kovah

[Slides] [Data]

Privacy in the modern eraIPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation

Erik Rye and Robert Beverly

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Device Tracking via Linux’s New TCP Source Port Selection Algorithm

Moshe Kol, Amit Klein, and Yossi Gilad

[Code] [Paper]

zk-creds: Flexible Anonymous Credentials from zkSNARKs and Existing Identity Infrastructure

Michael Rosenberg, Jacob White, Christina Garman, and Ian Miers

[Paper] [Code]

3 Years in China: A Tale of Building a REAL Full Speed Anti-Censorship Router

KaiJern Lau

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Embedded [in]securityEmbedded Threats: A Deep Dive into the Attack Surface and Security Implications of eSIM Technology

Markus Vevier

[Code] [Video]

RPMB, a secret place inside the eMMC

Sergio Prado

[Blog]

Compromising Garmin’s Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and its MonkeyC Virtual Machine

Tao Sauvage

[Blog] [Video] [Slides]

The Impostor Among US(B): Off-Path Injection Attacks on USB Communications

Robert Dumitru, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Wabnitz, and Yuval Yarom

[Code] [Paper]

MagBackdoor: Beware of Your Loudspeaker as A Backdoor For Magnetic Injection Attacks

Tiantian Liu, Feng Lin, Zhangsen Wang, Chao Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Li Lu, Wenyao Xu, and Kui Ren

[Code] [Paper]

Issues at the operating system level(Windows) Hello from the Other Side

Dirk-jan Mollema

[Slides] [Code]

Every Signature is Broken: On the Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s OOXML Signatures

Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Daniel Hirschberger, and Jörg Schwenk

[Paper] [Code]

Dirty Bin Cache: A New Code Injection Poisoning Binary Translation Cache

Koh Nakagawa

[Slides] [Code]

The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders

Willy R. Vasquez, Stephen Checkoway, and Hovav Shacham

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Nifty sundriesEverParse: Secure Binary Data Parsers for Everyone

Tahina Ramananandro

[Slides] [Code]

InfinityGauntlet: Expose Smartphone Fingerprint Authentication to Brute-force Attack

Yu Chen, Yang Yu, and Lidong Zhai

[Paper]

It’s (DOM) Clobbering Time: Attack Techniques, Prevalence, and Defenses

Soheil Khodayari and Giancarlo Pellegrino

[Code] [Paper] [Site]

Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

Bar Lanyado, Ortal Keizman, and Yair Divinsky

[Blog]

Phoenix Domain Attack: Vulnerable Links in Domain Name Delegation and Revocation

Xiang Li, Baojun Liu, Xuesong Bai, Mingming Zhang, Qifan Zhang, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, and Qi Li

[Slides] [Paper]

Man-in-the-Middle Attacks without Rogue AP: When WPAs Meet ICMP Redirects

Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, Kun Sun, Yuxiang Yang, and Ke Xu

[Website] [Paper]

Smashing Web3 transaction simulations for fun and profit

Tal Be'ery and Roi Vazan

[Blog] [Video]

Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection

Kai Greshake, Sahar Abdelnabi, Shailesh Mishra, Christoph Endres, Thorsten Holz, and Mario Fritz

[Paper] [Code] [Demo Website]

Using ZK Proofs to Fight Disinformation

Trisha Datta and Dan Boneh

[Slides] [Video] [Code] [Blog]

Crypto Agility and Post-Quantum Cryptography @ Google

Stefan Kölbl, Anvita Pandit, Rafael Misoczki, and Sophie Schmieg

[Code] [Video]

Server-side prototype pollution: Black-box detection without the DoS

Gareth Heyes

[Blog] [Slides] [Video]

Phantom of the Pipeline – Abusing Self-Hosted CI/CD Runners

Adnan Khan, Mason Davis, and Matt Jackoski

[Slides] [Code] [Blog]

Framing Frames: Bypassing Wi-Fi Encryption by Manipulating Transmit Queues

Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Mathy Vanhoef

[Slides] [Paper] [Video]

Let Me Unwind That For You: Exceptions to Backward-Edge Protection

Victor Duta, Fabian Freyer, Fabio Pagani, Marius Muench, and Cristiano Giuffrida

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Protect the System Call, Protect (Most of) the World with BASTION

Christopher Jelesnianski, Mohannad Ismail, Yeongjin Jang, Dan Williams, and Changwoo Min

[Paper]

Interoperability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging

Esha Ghosh, Paul Grubbs, Julia Len, and Paul Rösler

[Slides] [Paper] [Video]

High Risk Users and Where to Find Them

Masha Sedova

[Paper] [Video]

Why I write my own security tooling

James Forshaw

[Code] [Video]

Polynonce: A tale of a novel ECDSA attack and Bitcoin tears

Marco Macchetti and Nils Amiet

[Blog] [Paper] [Code]

Finding 10x+ Performance Improvements in C++ with CodeQL

Sean Heelan

[Blog] [Code]

Bridging the gap in the static and dynamic analysis of binaries through decompiler tomfoolery!

Zion Basque

[Code] [Video]

Hacking the Cloud with SAML

Felix Wilhelm

[Slides] [Video]

Announcing GUAC, a great pairing with SLSA (and SBOM)!

Brandon Lum, Mihai Maruseac, Isaac Hepworth, Google Open Source Security Team

[Blog] [Code] [Presentation]

We sign code now

William Woodruff

[Blog] [Code] [Video]

Knockout Win Against TCC - 20+ NEW Ways to Bypass Your MacOS Privacy Mechanisms

Csaba Fitzl and Wojciech Regula

[Slides] 

Farming The Apple Orchards: Living Off The Land Techniques

Cedric Owens and Chris Ross

[Slides] [Video]

LOLBINed — Using Kaspersky Endpoint Security “KES” Installer to Execute Arbitrary Commands

Nasreddine Bencherchali

[Blog] 

POPKORN: Popping Windows Kernel Drivers At Scale

Rajat Gupta, Lukas Patrick Dresel, Noah Spahn, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, and Taesoo Kim

[Paper] [Code]

RC4 Is Still Considered Harmful

James Forshaw

[Blog]

Kerberos’ RC4-HMAC broken in practice: spoofing PACs with MD5 collisions

Tom Tervoort

[Paper] [Slides]

Exploring Ancient Ruins to Find Modern Bugs: Discovering a 0-Day in MS-RPC service

Ophir Harpaz and Stiv Kupchik

[Slides] [Video]

Decentralized Identity Attack Surface

Shaked Reiner

[Blog part 1] [Blog part 2]

Drone Authentication via Acoustic Fingerprint

Yufeng Diao, Yichi Zhang, Guodong Zhao, and Mohamed Khamis

[Slides] [Paper]

On the Implications of Spoofing and Jamming Aviation Datalink Applications

Harshad Sathaye, Guevara Noubir, and Aanjhan Ranganathan

[Slides] [Paper]

{JS-ON: Security-OFF}: Abusing JSON-Based SQL Queries

Noam Moshe

[Slides] [SQLMap patch] [Blog]

Are There Wireless Hidden Cameras Spying on Me?

Jeongyoon Heo, Sangwon Gil, Youngman Jung, Jinmok Kim, Donguk Kim,

Woojin Park, Yongdae Kim, Kang G. Shin, and Choong-Hoon Lee

[Slides] [Paper]

Analyzing the Feasibility and Generalizability of Fingerprinting Internet of Things Devices

Dilawer Ahmed, Anupam Das, and Fareed Zaffar

[Code] [Paper]

Watching the Watchers: Practical Video Identification Attack in LTE Networks

Sangwook Bae, Mincheol Son, Dongkwan Kim, CheolJun Park, Jiho Lee, Sooel Son, and Yongdae Kim

[Website] [Paper] [Video]

Can one hear the shape of a neural network?: Snooping the GPU via Magnetic Side Channel

Henrique Teles Maia, Chang Xiao, Dingzeyu Li, Eitan Grinspun, and Changxi Zheng

[Slides] [Paper]

LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE

Martin Kotuliak, Simon Erni, Patrick Leu, Marc Röschlin, and Srdjan Čapkun

[Slides] [Paper]

IRMA's Idemix core: Understanding the crypto behind selective, unlinkable attribute disclosure

Maja Reissner and Sietse Ringers

[Site] [Code] [Video]

CryptPad: a zero knowledge collaboration platform

Ludovic Dubost

[Code] [Video] [Site]

drand: publicly verifiable randomness explained

Yolan Romailler

[Video] [Code]

A dead man’s full-yet-responsible-disclosure system

Yolan Romailler

[Slides] [Code]

Oops... Code Execution and Content Spoofing: The First Comprehensive Analysis of OpenDocument Signatures

Simon Rohlmann, Christian Mainka, Vladislav Mladenov, and Jörg Schwenk

[Slides] [Paper]

My data in your signed code

Alex Ivkin

[Code] [Video]

Can You Trust a File’s Digital Signature? New Zloader Campaign exploits Microsoft’s Signature Verification

Golan Cohen

[Video] [Blog]

TLS-Anvil: Adapting Combinatorial Testing for TLS Libraries

Marcel Maehren, Philipp Nieting, Sven Hebrok, Robert Merget, Juraj Somorovsky, Jörg Schwenk

[Slides] [Website] [Code]

Arbiter: Bridging the Static and Dynamic Divide in Vulnerability Discovery on Binary Programs

Jayakrishna Vadayath, Moritz Eckert, Kyle Zeng, Nicolaas Weideman, Gokulkrishna Praveen Menon, Yanick Fratantonio, Davide Balzarotti, Adam Doupé, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Christophe Hauser, and Yan Shoshitaishvili

[Paper] [Code]

In Need of 'Pair' Review: Vulnerable Code Contributions by GitHub Copilot

Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, and Baleegh Ahmad

[Slides] [Paper]

Catch Me If You Can: Deterministic Discovery of Race Conditions with Fuzzing

Ned Williamson

[Slides] [Code]

Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

[Blog]

Attacking AAD by abusing the Sync API: The story behind $40K in bounties

Nestori Syynimaa

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Towards a Tectonic Traffic Shift? Investigating Apple’s New Relay Network

Patrick Sattler , Juliane Aulbach , Johannes Zirngibl , Georg Carle

 [Paper] 

Hiding malware in Docker Desktop's secret virtual machine

Alex Hope

[Blog] [Video]

Let's Dance in the Cache - Destabilizing Hash Table on Microsoft IIS

Orange Tsai

[Slides] [Blog]

Using Trātṛ to tame Adversarial Synchronization

Yuvraj Patel, Chenhao Ye, Akshat Sinha, Abigail Matthews, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Michael M. Swift

[Slides] [Paper]

I am become loadbalancer, owner of your network

Nate Warfield

[Slides]

Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones

Jiska Classen, Alexander Heinrich, Robert Reith, and Matthias Hollick

[Slides] [Paper]

AirTag of the Clones: Shenanigans with Liberated Item Finders

Thomas Roth, Fabian Freyer, Matthias Hollick, and Jiska Classen

[Paper] [Code]

Are Blockchains Decentralised?

Evan Sultanik, Alexander Remie, Felipe Manzano, Trent Brunson, Sam Moelius, Eric Kilmer, Mike Myers, Talley Amir, and Sonya Schriner

[Blog] [Paper] [Audio]

What Log4j teaches us about the Software Supply Chain

Stephen Magill

[Slides] [Video]

Kani Rust Verifier

Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne and Zyad Hassan

[Slides] [Video] [Code]

Cross-Language Attacks

Samuel Mergendahl, Nathan Burow, and Hamed Okhravi

[Paper]

Software Updates Strategies: A Quantitative Evaluation Against Advanced Persistent Threats

Giorgio Di Tizio, Michele Armellini, and Fabio Massacci

[Paper] [Data]

AMD Secure Processor for Confidential Computing Security Review

Cfir Cohen, James Forshaw, Jann Horn, and Mark Brand

[Blog] [Paper]

Living Off the Walled Garden: Abusing the Features of the Early Launch Antimalware Ecosystem

Matt Graebar

[Slides]

A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS

Alexander Popov

[Blog] [Video]

Adaptive Multi-objective Optimization in Gray-box Fuzzing

Gen Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Tai Yue, Xiangdong Kong, Shan Huang, Xu Zhou, and Kai Lu

[Paper]

Cooper Knows the Shortest Stave: Finding 134 Bugs in the Binding Code of Scripting Languages with Cooperative Mutation

Xu Peng, Yanhao Wang, Hong Hu, and Purui Su

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Bypassing CSP with dangling iframes

Gareth Heyes

[Blog] 

Bypassing Dangling Markup Injection Mitigation Bypass in Chrome

SeungJu Oh

 [Bug report] [Blog]

Pre-hijacked accounts: An Empirical Study of Security Failures in User Account Creation on the Web

Avinash Sudhodanan and Andrew Paverd

[Blog] [Paper]

Hyntrospect: a fuzzer for Hyper-V devices

Diane Dubois

[Slides] [Paper] [Code] [Video]

Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel

Valentina Palmiotti

[Blog]

The AMD Branch (Mis)predictor: Where No CPU has Gone Before

Pawel Wieczorkiewicz

[Blog part 1] [Blog part 2]

Dynamic Process Isolation

Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Kenton Varda, Thomas Schuster, Daniel Gruss, and Michael Schwarz

[Paper]

Another Brick in the Wall: Uncovering SMM Vulnerabilities in HP Firmware

Itai Liba, and Assaf Carlsbad

[Blog] [Code]

Confidential Containers: Bringing Confidential Computing to the Kubernetes Workload Masses

Samuel Ortiz

[Video]

Kubernetes Meets Confidential Computing - The Different Ways of Scaling Sensitive Workloads

Moritz Eckert

[Video]

Implementing Post-quantum Cryptography for Developers

Julius Hekkala, Kimmo Halunen, and Visa Vallivaara

[Paper]

CMUA-Watermark: A Cross-Model Universal Adversarial Watermark for Combating Deepfakes

Hao Huang, Yongtao Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Yu Ze Zhang, Yuheng Li, Zhi Tang, Wei Chu, Jingdong Chen, Weisi Lin, and Kai-Kuang Ma

[Paper] [Code]

Leashing the Inner Demons: Self-Detoxification for Language Models

Canwen Xu, Zexue He, Zhankui He, and Julian McAuley

[Paper] [Code]

Fooling the Eyes of Autonomous Vehicles: Robust Physical Adversarial Examples Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems

Wei Jia, Zhaojun Lu, Haichun Zhang, Zhenglin Liu, Jie Wang, and Gang Qu

[Paper]

Synthetic Disinformation Attacks on Automated Fact Verification Systems

Yibing Du, Antoine Bosselut, Christopher D. Manning

[Paper]

Why No One Pwned Synology at Pwn2Own and Tianfu Cup in 2021

Eugene Lim, and Loke Hui Yi

[Slides]

DRAWN APART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting

Tomer Laor, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey, Vitaly Dyadyuk, Pierre Laperdrix, Clémentine Maurice, Yossi Oren, Romain Rouvoy, Walter Rudametkin, and Yuval Yarom

[Paper] [Code]

Attacking JavaScript Engines in 2022

Samuel Groß, and Amanda Burnett

[Slides]

Security Analysis of MTE Through Examples

Saar Amar

[Slides] [Video]

An Armful of CHERIs

Saar Amar, Nicholas Joly, David Chisnall, Manuel Costa, Sylvan Clebsch, Wes Filardo, Boris Köpf, Robert Norton-Wright, and Matthew Parkison

[Blog]

Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks

Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Daniel Bates, Nicolas Papernot, Robert Mullins, and Ross Anderson

[Slides] [Paper] [Video]

How to Use Cheated Cryptography to Overload a Server

Szilárd Pfeiffer

[Slides]

Bestie: Very Practical Searchable Encryption with Forward and Backward Security

Tuanyang Chen, Peng Xu, Wei Wang, Yubo Zheng, Willy Susilo, and Hai Jin

[Paper]

Symgrate: A Symbol Recovery Service for ARM Firmware

Travis Goodspeed & EVM

[Site] 

From Graph Queries to Vulnerabilities in Binary Code

claudiu, fabs, and niko

[Slides]

Fast verified post-quantum software

Daniel J. Bernstein

[Slides]

AIModel-Mutator: Finding Vulnerabilities in TensorFlow

Qian Feng, Zhaofeng Chen, Zhenyu Zhong, Yakun Zhang, Ying Wang, Zheng Huang, Kang Li, Jie Hu and Heng Yin

[Slides]

DAMAS: Control-Data Isolation at Runtime through Dynamic Binary Modification

Camille Le Bon, Erven Rohou, Frederic Tronel, and Guillaume Hiet

[Paper]

Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities

Nicholas Boucher and Ross Anderson

[Paper] [Code]

Who owns your hybrid Active Directory? Hunting for adversary techniques!

Thirumalai Natarajan Muthiah & Anurag Khanna

[Paper]

Breaking Azure AD joined endpoints in zero-trust environments

Dirk-jan Mollema

[Slides] [Video]

Going Deeper into Schneider Modicon PAC Security

Gao Jian

[Slides] [Video]

New Ways of IPv6 Scanning

Shupeng Gao, Xingru Wu, and Jie Gao

[Slides]

DIY cheap gigabit data diode

Magnus

[Code]

Bridge your service mesh and AWS

Santosh Ananthakrishnan & Harihara K Narayanan

[Slides]

GALILEO: In GPS We Trust?

Áron Szabó, Levente Kovács, and Péter Ligeti

[Slides]

“We wait, because we know you.” Inside the ransomware negotiation economics.

Pepijn Hack & Harihara K Narayanan

[Paper]

Privacy of DNS-over-HTTPS: Requiem for a dream?

Levente Csikor, Himanshu Singh, Min Suk Kang, and Dinil Mon Divakaran

[Slides] 

Sleight of ARM: Demystifying Intel Houdini

Brian Hong

[Slides] [Video]

IntroductionEpisode 1 - 2021/Q3

Thinkst Trends and Takeaways is a show released in conjunction with ThinkstScapes, a written quarterly review of information security research published in both industry and academic venues. Thinkst Labs allocates time to tracking industry research so you don’t have to, specifically looking for novel and unusual work that is impactful--this is not simply a report on bugs or vulnerabilities. Work covered here will include both offensive and defensive topics, and we explore academic publications with the same gusto as industry work. Our target listeners are primarily security practitioners in organizations who are tasked with defending their turf, but offensive-minded folks will also be exposed to new ideas and research we’ve come across.

Full bibliography of referenced works:

Embedded security research

• Precursor: Towards Evidence-Based Trust in Hardware
  • Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang
  • [Video]
• Kernel Pwning with eBPF: a Love Story
  • Valentina Palmiotti (@chompie1337)
  • [Paper]
• InternalBlue / Frankenstein / Spectra
  • Jan Ruge, Jiska Classen, Francesco Gringoli, and Matthias Hollick
  • [Slides] [Slides] [Video]
• HALucinator: Firmware Re-hosting Through Abstraction Layer Emulation
  • Abraham Clements, Eric Gustafson, Tobias Scharnowski, Paul Grosen, David Fritz, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Saurabh Bagchi, and Mathias Payer
  • [Slides] [Paper] [Video]
• Device-agnostic Firmware Execution is Possible: A Concolic Execution Approach for Peripheral Emulation
  • Chen Cao, Le Guan, Jiang Ming, and Peng Liu
  • [Paper]
• Remote Timing Attacks on TPMs, AKA TPM-Fail
  • Daniel Moghimi
  • [Slides]
• Breaking VSM by Attacking SecureKernel
  • Saar Amar and Daniel King
  • [Slides]
• Whispers Among the Stars: Perpetrating (and Preventing) Satellite Eavesdropping Attacks
  • James Pavur
  • [Slides] [Video]

Exploiting 'Differences of opinion'

• HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse
  • James Kettle
  • [Paper]
• Differential Fuzzing of x86-64 Instruction Decoders
  • William Woodruff, Niki Carroll, and Sebastiaan Peters
  • [Paper] [Video]
• EtherOops: Exploring Practical Methods to Exploit Ethernet Packet-in-Packet Attacks
  • Ben Seri, Gregory Vichnepolsky, and Yevgeny Yusepovsky
  • [Slides] [Paper]
• Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems
  • Takeshi Sugawara, Benjamin Cyr, Sara Rampazzi, Daniel Genkin, and Kevin Fu
  • [Slides]
• Interpretable Deep Learning Under Fire
  • Xinyang Zhang, Ningfei Wang, Hua Shen, Shouling Ji, Xiapu Luo, and Ting Wang
  • [Slides] [Paper] [Video]
• Hiding Objects from Computer Vision by Exploiting Correlation Biases
  • Yin Minn Pa Pa, Paul Ziegler, and Masaki Kamizono
  • [Slides]
• Disrupting Continuity of Apple’s Wireless Ecosystem Security: New Tracking, DoS, and MitM Attacks on iOS and macOS Through Bluetooth Low Energy, AWDL and Wi-Fi
  • Milan Stute, Alexander Heinrich, Jannik Lorenz, and Matthias Hollick
  • [Paper]

Defence

• Entangled Watermarks as a Defense Against Model Extraction
  • Hengrui Jia, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Varun Chandrasekaran, Nicolas Papernot
  • [Paper]
• Hopper: Modeling and Detecting Lateral Movement
  • Grant Ho, Mayank Dhiman, Devdatta Akhawe, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey Voelker, and David Wagner
  • [Paper]
• Faking a Factory: Creating and Operating a Realistic Honeypot
  • Charles Perine
  • [Slides] [Paper] [Video]
• Do You Speak My Language? Making Static Analysis Engines Understand Each Other
  • Ibrahim Mohamed and Manuel Fahndrich
  • [Slides]
• Practical Defenses Against Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Ariel Herbert-Voss
  • [Video]

Nifty sundries

• Remote Side-Channel Attacks on Anonymous Transactions
  • Florian Tramer, Dan Boneh, and Kenneth G. Paterson
  • [Paper]
• An Observational Investigation of Reverse Engineers’ Processes
  • Daniel Votipka, Seth Rabin, Kristopher Micinski, Jeffrey Foster, and Michelle Mazurek
  • [Paper] [Video]
• On the Feasibility of Automating Stock Market Manipulation
  • Carter Yagemann, Simon Chung, Erkam Uzun, Sai Ragam, Brendan Saltaformaggio, and Wenke Lee
  • [Paper]
• IoT Skimmer: Energy Market Manipulation through High-Wattage IoT Botnets
  • Tohid Shekari and Raheem Beyah
  • [Slides]
• The Dark Age of Memory Corruption Mitigations in the Spectre Era
  • Andrea Mambretti and Alexandra Sandulescu
  • [Slides]
• Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly
  • Daniel Mehmann, Johannes Kinder, and Michael Pradel
  • [Slides] [Paper] [Video]
• ProxyLogon is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: A New Attack Surface on Microsoft Exchange Server!
  • Orange Tsai
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