Events

Black Hat 20 & DEFCON 25

Some of the ERNW Crew hit up Black Hat USA and DEFCON. Our own Omar Eissa even gave his first BH and DEFCON talks! See which talk we liked and what inspiration we took home.

BlackHat US 20:

ERNW´s Omar Eissa presented on Cisco Autonomic networks showing how
slides: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/wednesday/us-17-Eissa-Network-Automation-Isn’t-Your-Safe-Haven-Protocol-Analysis-And-Vulnerabilities-Of-Autonomic-Network.pdf
insinuator blogposts:
https://insinuator.net/2017/03/autonomic-network-overview/
https://insinuator.net/2017/03/autonomic-network-analysis/
https://insinuator.net/2017/04/autonomic-network-vulnerabilities/

 

BoradPWN
– Speaker: Nitay Artenstein
– Slides: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Artenstein-Broadpwn-Remotely-Compromising-Android-And-iOS-Via-A-Bug-In-Broadcoms-Wifi-Chipsets.pdf
– Paper: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Artenstein-Broadpwn-Remotely-Compromising-Android-And-iOS-Via-A-Bug-In-Broadcoms-Wifi-Chipsets-wp.pdf
– Broadly covered in main stream Media –> Wired article, tons of write-ups…link: https://www.wired.com/story/broadpwn-wi-fi-vulnerability-ios-android/
– Initial Blog Post: https://blog.exodusintel.com/2017/07/26/broadpwn/
– He took a deep dive into the internals of the BCM4354, 4358 and 4359 Wi-Fi chipsets and found an issue that he exploited to an extent where he created the world´s first wifi worm.
– This hits most of the mobiles users pretty hard. Affected devices are for example: Samsung Galaxy from S3 through S8, inclusive All Samsung Notes3. Nexus 5, 6, 6X and 6P, All iPhones after iPhone 5
– An infected device can be used to infect other mobile devices.
– Luckily currently there is no malware that is actively exploiting this issue.

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