The Call For Papers for nullcon Goa 2025 is now open. Nullcon is an information security conference held in Goa, India. The focus of the conference is to showcase the next generation of offensive and defensive security technology. It will take place March 1st through the 2nd, 2025.
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Whitepaper called Unleashing Worms and Extracting Data: Escalating the Outcome of Attacks against RAG-based Inference in Scale and Severity Using Jailbreaking. In this paper, the authors show that with the ability to jailbreak a GenAI model, attackers can escalate the outcome of attacks against RAG-based GenAI-powered applications in severity and scale.
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The No cON Name 2024 call for papers has been announced. It will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from November 18th through the 20th, 2024.
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This is the official vulnerability disclosure report for CVEs CVE-2024-38881 through CVE-2024-38891 by jTag Labs. This report details critical security vulnerabilities found within Caterease, a product of Horizon Business Services Inc. These vulnerabilities have significant implications for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the software and the sensitive data it handles. The issues include problems like remote SQL injection, command injection, authentication bypass, hard-coded credentials, and more.
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This whitepaper discusses eBPF technology in the Linux kernel and introduces the BPF Runtime Fuzzer (BRF), a fuzzer that can satisfy the semantics and dependencies required by the verifier and the eBPF subsystem.
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Qualys has discovered a a signal handler race condition vulnerability in OpenSSH's server, sshd. If a client does not authenticate within LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in old OpenSSH versions), then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously, but this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe - for example, syslog(). This race condition affects sshd in its default configuration.
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In recent months, North Korean based threat actors have been ramping up attack campaigns in order to achieve a myriad of their objectives, whether it be financial gain or with espionage purposes in mind. The North Korean cluster of attack groups is peculiar seeing there is quite some overlap with one another, and it is not always straightforward to attribute a specific campaign to a specific threat actor. This is no different in what the authors are presenting in this paper today, where they analyze a new threat campaign, initially discovered in late May, featuring multiple layers and which ultimately delivers a seemingly new and previously undocumented backdoor. These actions appear tied to Kimsuky and is specifically focused on Aerospace and Defense companies.
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The call for papers for Hardwear.io 2024 in the Netherlands is now open. It will take place October 24th through the 24th, 2024 at the Marriott Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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B-Sides Ljubljana will be held September 27, 2024 at the Computer History Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe.
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In this paper, the authors show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy threat on a global scale. They present an attack that allows an unprivileged attacker to amass a worldwide snapshot of Wi-Fi BSSID geolocations in only a matter of days. Their attack makes few assumptions, merely exploiting the fact that there are relatively few dense regions of allocated MAC address space. Applying this technique over the course of a year, they learned the precise locations of over 2 billion BSSIDs around the world. The privacy implications of such massive datasets become more stark when taken longitudinally, allowing the attacker to track devices' movements.
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Whitepaper called The not-so-silent type - Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers.
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This whitepaper provides a detailed analysis of the recent SSH client backdoor. Written in Turkish.
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The IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations in Emerging Technologies organizing committee is inviting you to submit your research papers. The workshop will be held in Hybrid mode. The in-person mode will held at Hilton London Tower Bridge, London from September 2nd through the 4th, 2024.
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The 13th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, or IWCC, 2024 call for papers has been announced. It will take place July 30th through August 2nd, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
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This whitepaper shows that the security threat from DMPs is significantly worse than previously thought and demonstrates the first end-to-end attacks on security-critical software using the Apple m-series DMP. Undergirding the author's attacks is a new understanding of how DMPs behave which shows, among other things, that the Apple DMP will activate on behalf of any victim program and attempt to leak any cached data that resembles a pointer.
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In this paper, the authors present the first GPU cache side-channel attack from within the browser, more specifically from the restricted WebGPU environment. The foundation for our generic and automated attacks are self-configuring primitives applicable to a wide variety of devices, which they demonstrate on a set of 11 desktop GPUs from 5 different generations and 2 vendors.
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Race 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).
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In 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.
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This 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.
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In this paper, the authors show that the design of DNSSEC is flawed. Exploiting vulnerable recommendations in the DNSSEC standards, they developed a new class of DNSSEC-based algorithmic complexity attacks on DNS, they dubbed KeyTrap attacks. All popular DNS implementations and services are vulnerable. With just a single DNS packet, the KeyTrap attacks lead to a 2.000.000x spike in CPU instruction count in vulnerable DNS resolvers, stalling some for as long as 16 hours. This devastating effect prompted major DNS vendors to refer to KeyTrap as "the worst attack on DNS ever discovered". Exploiting KeyTrap, an attacker could effectively disable Internet access in any system utilizing a DNSSEC-validating resolver.
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This 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.
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The 44CON 2024 Call For Papers has been announced. 44CON is the UK's largest combined annual Security Conference and Training event. The event takes place September 18th through the 20th, 2024 at the Novotel London West near Hammersmith, London.
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REcon is a computer security conference with a focus on reverse engineering and advanced exploitation techniques. It will be held June 28th through the 30th, 2024, in Montreal, Canada.
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Whitepaper called How To Install And Use Metasploit On Termux. Written in Arabic.
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The call for papers for Hardwear.io USA 2024 is open. It will take place May 31st through June 1, 2024.
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