Distinguished
security research
& engineering

Since 2005

Blackwing Intelligence is a boutique cyber security research and engineering firm based in New York. Since 2005 we’ve delivered cutting edge software and product security services to discerning clients around the globe.

Our mission is to provide only the highest caliber technical expertise available. Our team is comprised of experts with decades of experience in security engineering and offensive research.

What we do

Security Engineering and Architecture Services

Engineering & Architecture

  • Security automation
  • Software Hardening
  • Secure Design
  • Security Engineering
Security Analysis Services

Security Analysis

  • Penetration Testing
  • Vulnerability Research
  • Code Audit
  • Architecture Review
Research and Development

Research & Development

  • Reverse Engineering
  • Custom Development
  • Exploit Development
  • Tailored Research

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Recent research

project

A Touch of Pwn: Bypassing Windows Hello Fingerprint Authentication

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Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering team engaged us to evaluate the security of the top three fingerprint sensors embedded in laptops and used for Windows Hello. Extensive …

1 talk1 post Jesse D'Aguanno, Timo Teräs

Finding Vulnerability Variants at Scale

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While performing a security audit, I discovered a file format vulnerability that took me down an unexpected rabbit hole. The bug was fairly straightforward but what made it interesting was its origin and its variants …

Playing with Libmalloc in 2024

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TL;DR In this post, I introduce a new tool called heapster that allows you to play with macOS libmalloc. I walk you through how to use this tool and a couple strange things I found along the way.

heapster

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A tool for exploring the macOS libmalloc heap from LLDB: zones, magazines, free lists and the state of individual allocations, introduced in our libmalloc post.

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