Recently we posted first part of our Bluetooth research diary. Today, we want to continue on that topic and tell you about Bluetooth proxying and packet replay with a new tool.
This time we had a new gadget to play with: our colleague Florian Grunow shared with us a curious IoT device – Bluetooth socks… real socks that you control with an app to heat your feet. The future is here… 😉
As you probably know we perform research on a regular base at ERNW.
We – Olga and Rafael – started with a research project about Bluetooth. Our first goal was to gain some knowledge about the tools used by most Linux systems to communicate with Bluetooth hardware, such as BlueZ. A good help for that was the amazing Bluetooth hacking workshop we had before (check the link in our blog!)
To get a better understanding of the tools you need some Bluetooth hardware to interact with.
The hardware we used for our research so far are the very cool TexasInstruments SimpleLink™ Bluetooth low energy/Multi-standard SensorTag (CC2650STK) and a Fitness Wristband found at home.
Last week we have visited the HITBSecConf16 – conference in Amsterdam.
There were many interesting talks, and in this post I am going to tell you about a talk held by Radu Caragea – “Telescope: Peering Into the Depths of TLS Traffic in Real-Time”.
While performing a dynamic malware analysis one often needs to analyze network traffic in order to determine malware communication with C&C servers, to observe the malware delivery from sites, or to investigate honeypot traffic under TLS.
There are already existing solutions to help with this task. However in the given talk considering virtual environments the speaker presented a novel technique that works for virtualized machines with a minimal overhead, and is actually OS-agnostic and crypto-library-agnostic.
Hi everyone!
A quick update: earlier in our blog we released BMC BladeLogic: CVE-2016-1542 and CVE-2016-1543 vulnerabilities. Now the exploits are also available in our github if you want to check your systems 😉
Have a nice week,
Olga
A talk about DirectAccess (an IPv6-only VPN solution) was given by our colleague Ali Hardudi during IPv6 summit. Ali has recently finished his master thesis on this topic.
The DirectAccess VPN technology was introduced by Microsoft starting from Windows server 2008. It allows users remotely, seamlessly and securely connect to their internal network resources without a need to provide user credentials, which is done using different technologies such as Windows domain group policies.
Continue readingJasper Bongertz is a Senior Technical Consultant at Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity. He is focusing on IT security, Incident Response and Network Forensics.
During the IPv6 summit on Troopers16 he had given a talk on anonymization IPv6 in PCAPs and presented his new tool.
Sometimes you need to share your packet capture files (PCAPs), but distributing them involves a risk of exposing the confidential information. To avoid this, you must sanitize your PCAPs. The goal of sanitization is to remove the critical details but keep enough information for the PCAP to still be useful. The original-to-sanitized ratio is based on your goals.
Continue readingFernando Gont, who is specializing in the field of communications protocols security, gave a talk during this year’s Troopers IPv6 summit. He spoke about network reconnaissance techniques in IPv6 area and presented a brand new set of tools for this purpose.
Comparing with methods for IPv4, reconnaissance techniques for IPv6 should be different. It offers much larger address space, so such attacks as brute force address scanning are not feasible anymore, because it would take too much time to send one packet to each and every possible address. Fernando has also noted that in general network reconnaissance support in security tools has traditionally been poor. Together these facts prompt that it’s time for something new, and recently a new IETF RFC 7707 was published.
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Hope those of you who attended Troopers16 enjoyed it as much as we did! In this post I want to summarize my Troopers16 talk and provide you with some details about freshly assigned CVE-2016-1542 and CVE-2016-1543 related to BMC BladeLogic software.
To start with, BMC Software Inc. is an American company specializing in business service management software; they develop software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. Among other products they have developed a BladeLogic suite that includes Database Automation, Middleware Automation, Server Automation, and Network Automation tools. The one under our focus was BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA).
Continue readingIn the beginning of September, I had an opportunity to take part in BlackHoodie – a reversing workshop for women organized by Marion Marschalek, senior malware researcher at Cyphort, Inc. It took place on 5th and 6th of September at University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria.
Besides me, 14 more young women from different countries came to attend the workshop; the overall atmosphere was very friendly and productive. Before the actual event all participants were getting preparatory assignments and recommendations (not to spend our two days on learning the very basics), and during the workshop itself we got our hands on analyzing and reversing some actual malware samples. I personally found it very interesting how one can detect and overcome several layers of anti-analysis protection. I left the workshop excited and packed with some new knowledge as a basis for further skills development – it’s just the beginning! 😉
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