Research is at the core of who we are and everything we do. Public output from the team: vulnerabilities we’ve disclosed, talks we’ve given and tools we’ve released, with the bigger bodies of work collected as projects.
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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
last: Oct 2024
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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 …
Franco Belman
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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.
Josh Pitts
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TL;DR Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked us to evaluate the security of the top three fingerprint sensors embedded in laptops and used for Windows Hello fingerprint …
Jesse D'Aguanno, Timo Teräs
Our first advisories are in coordinated disclosure and will appear here as they go public.
last: Oct 2023
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Microsoft engaged us to evaluate the security of the top fingerprint sensors used for Windows biometric authentication. This presentation details our vulnerability research process, which entailed …
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Eddie Lee presents NFCProxy, a proof-of-concept tool that demonstrates insecurities in near field communication and contactless credit cards. The tool is also useful for NFC protocol analysis in …
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Apple’s OS X operating system has been gaining in popularity. This presentation details how to manipulate the OS X kernel in order to hide an attacker’s activities and maintain access.
slides Jesse D'Aguanno
last: Jan 2024
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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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A Binary Ninja binary view for iBoot, SecureROM and similar Apple boot firmware. Point it at a raw image and it identifies the firmware, finds the load address and rebases the binary so analysis is …
source Jesse D'Aguanno
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An Android app that proxies NFC transactions between a contactless card and a reader, for demonstrating relay attacks and analysing NFC protocols. Presented at DEF CON 20.