This whitepaper provides a detailed analysis of the recent SSH client backdoor. Written in Turkish.
ce4d2798fcc0bd6073620253319c3a70e1d899442c3920c83b9dc3acd8dfe046Race conditions arise when multiple threads attempt to access a shared resource without proper synchronization, often leading to vulnerabilities such as concurrent use-after-free. To mitigate their occurrence, operating systems rely on synchronization primitives such as mutexes, spinlocks, etc. In this paper, the authors present GhostRace, the first security analysis of these primitives on speculatively executed code paths. Their key finding is that all the common synchronization primitives can be microarchitecturally bypassed on speculative paths, turning all architecturally race-free critical regions into Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs).
e0d3a753ac273a430c317cd67e808c20b6cdd914b31b24e71450d5fb4ad420afIn this whitepaper, the authors introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Specifically, their attack recovers the embedding projection layer (up to symmetries) of a transformer model, given typical API access. For under $20 USD, their attack extracts the entire projection matrix of OpenAI's ada and babbage language models. They thereby confirm, for the first time, that these black-box models have a hidden dimension of 1024 and 2048, respectively. They also recover the exact hidden dimension size of the gpt-3.5-turbo model, and estimate it would cost under $2,000 in queries to recover the entire projection matrix. They conclude with potential defenses and mitigations, and discuss the implications of possible future work that could extend this attack.
35bb26fb1fe58d91b595fbecc219b129076e6cc3ae746288dc27c6fa0d128e6aThis is an interesting whitepaper called Compromising Industrial Processes using Web-Based Programmable Logic Controller Malware. The authors present a novel approach to developing programmable logic controller (PLC) malware that proves to be more flexible, resilient, and impactful than current strategies.
741326e4fbc51ab41e106a049572fa380ad7b01037f9e364be260067feb5194bThis paper will walk you through the proof-of-concept and technical details of exploitation for IOActive's recent NFC relay attack on the newest Tesla vehicle, the Model Y. To successfully carry out the attack, IOActive reverse-engineered the NFC protocol Tesla uses between the NFC card and the vehicle, and they then created custom firmware modifications that allowed a Proxmark RDV4.0 device to relay NFC communications over Bluetooth/Wi-Fi using the Proxmark's BlueShark module.
1b2f050c027e1bfe9702c6a2a927a78ccba6ef0043e76bbe3a63de1a54eaecc8Whitepaper called How To Install And Use Metasploit On Termux. Written in Arabic.
334302ac8df53bd30a618970bd4921ff0d15d9fb14991c99d782217efaee5098Whitepaper called Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing: The Rise of Security in the Age of IoT, IIoT, ICS, and SCADA. This article examines Industry 4.0's relationship with the rapidly developing technologies Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and why cyber security is important in these areas.
0458410365974be314b620bd7944a4541658322fd5a9cee88134e46a6317b29bThis paper focuses on using Windows APIs to exploit and bypass modern day defense systems. The idea here is to understand the approach of how a modern day threat adversary would definitely help blue teamers to improve their defense mechanism. This article is useful for both blue and red teamers.
a08987a70023a852cfeef5c85e21b3ba9fa78f1aa30066467583fa799fdca5e3This archive holds a whitepaper called Introduction to Web Pentesting. It provides basic configuration for Burpsuite Proxy along with basic exploitation cross site scripting, SQL injection, cross site request forgery, and open redirects. Two copies of the whitepaper are included. One is in English and one is in Bulgarian.
1f0745a5f6bf458420ce54f01247d5149ab58cb8886e6f6c015a8dbfc0d9a6deWhitepaper titled Everyone Knows SAP, Everyone Uses SAP, Everyone Uses RFC, No One Knows RFC: From RFC to RCE 16 Years Later.
ec3e058c8f83be6779103d8bb8f9cdbd4b8c1663435f67a9d7c36923c7afe54aThe expressiveness of Turing-complete blockchains implies that verifying a transaction's validity requires executing it on the current blockchain state. Transaction fees are designed to compensate actors for resources expended on transactions, but can only be charged from transactions included in blocks. In this work, the authors show that adversaries can craft malicious transactions that decouple the work imposed on blockchain actors from the compensation offered in return by introducing three attacks.
68b4adbac9a02de43d43f0c0b285dc603d363d3be1f6185ba4fe1c00129c1969Whitepaper called Bughunter's Life-Style: A DIY guide to become an alone long time bughunter for ordinary people. Written in Spanish.
492728ae51fe482711c11af1be87bba75442f0506b3f42fe800bfc028dd68d50In this paper, the authors present the efforts behind building a Special Interest Group (SIG) that seeks to develop a completely data-driven exploit scoring system that produces scores for all known vulnerabilities, that is freely available, and which adapts to new information.
8226a3dc718a8972e22524b28b782a704c31078e7997a2ddd07aeb9c9608798fIn this paper, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of the Not-Too-Safe Boot technique, which has been designed to bypass Endpoint Security Solutions like antivirus (AV), endpoint detection and response (EDR) and anti-tampering mechanisms remotely. This method builds on a local execution technique first published in 2007 and later utilized in a real world scenario by a ransomware in 2019.
4ab12a59151aa94280a3b9d4b96f18a83bea50df9c1d7059e19c8266fbd31001This whitepaper illustrates different machine learning techniques for anomaly detection relating to bank transactions.
7c0d7aa12a9030c384da45dec3261c2fd038115e1291526f413603a7bf272956CRYSTALS-Kyber has been selected by the NIST as a public-key encryption and key encapsulation mechanism to be standardized. It is also included in the NSA's suite of cryptographic algorithms recommended for national security systems. This makes it important to evaluate the resistance of CRYSTALS-Kyber’s implementations to side-channel attacks. The unprotected and first-order masked software implementations have been already analysed. In this paper, they present deep learning-based message recovery attacks on the ω-order masked implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber in ARM Cortex-M4 CPU for ω ≤ 5. The main contribution is a new neural network training method called recursive learning. In the attack on an ω-order masked implementation, they start training from an artificially constructed neural network M ω whose weights are partly copied from a model M ω−1 trained on the (ω − 1)-order masked implementation, and then extended to one more share. Such a method allows them to train neural networks that can recover a message bit with the probability above 99% from high-order masked implementations.
bb8f1a666a9bb3b7ef38e7e61e8980c7e3efb86a13dead4ae283a439aa94adedThis paper goes over common components of broadcast systems, how hackers take advantage of them, and discusses some of the vulnerabilities discovered.
1467a96747d9321ba7a659e074789337bc6efc1d4621b6ec26b5fdf38e1ca678The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has released their 2022 State of WordPress Security report. In the report, they look at changes in the threat landscape, analyze impactful trends, and provide recommendations based on their findings.
833a6664e11b54321c4268553ac08e81c3b99e65165b4e44d62207f09cc2fb5cIn this paper, the author subjects the vulnerable web application vulnweb.com, developed by Acunetix, to security tests. Acunetix is a web application where we can perform legal penetration tests. The author discusses how to infiltrate the target system by acting as a real hacker through this application. Written in Turkish.
9452d8ba127e646598688770379f1d68ad85c10e81be8c7238597d9d656014c1This is a brief whitepaper that discusses some basic fundamentals for approaching secure design of an application.
c962e90a506a04f9658f44421b9bf8e4b0339a1755b66c5c193c109f722ea574PatrIoT provides a four-stage IoT vulnerability research methodology built on top of four key elements: logical attack surface decomposition, compilation of top 100 weaknesses, lightweight risk scoring, and step-by-step penetration testing guidelines. The proposed methodology is evaluated with multiple IoT products. The results indicate that PatrIoT allows cyber security practitioners without much experience to advance vulnerability research activities quickly and reduces the risk of critical IoT penetration testing steps being overlooked.
7ef04fa8b69b383da473db2f732cbb05957268406e540aab12aa566dc3408119This paper is an in-depth blog post on hacking Zyxel IP cameras to obtain a root shell.
b1c1d5af6bd2b118ab3a1c720fe41a27cfec41885c4cf555570f4e8a14d7f78bWhitepaper called Abusing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Written in Arabic.
5b72b4426c74f72b869bca4e8c0638cb710f8a84b85dbb67be5d85a25110f951The No cON Name 2022 call for papers has been announced. It will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from November 24th through the 26th, 2022.
d8182cfe16d9ccbd8e7da1be7700730af253ceafe0069e08c13e7dd297ae1bfcThis whitepaper demonstrates leveraging cross site scripting and polyglot exploitation in an exploit called COOLHANDLUKE to violate network segmentation / layer 2 VLAN policies while routing and sending a file between isolated, air gapped networks without a router. This issue affects HPE Procurve, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Dell, and Netgear products.
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