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Introducing SentinelOnes Ghidra SRE Plugin For VirusTotal 4

Introducing SentinelOne’s Ghidra Plugin for VirusTotal

Ghidra users can now enjoy the same (and more!) benefits available in IDA Pro from VirusTotal’s VTGrep plugin with this open source plugin from SentinelLabs.

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Resourceful MacOS Malware Hides In Named Fork 5

Resourceful macOS Malware Hides in Named Fork

Threat actors targeting macOS are deploying a new trick to hide payloads and avoid detection thanks to an old technology: the named resource fork.

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Moving From Dynamic Emulation Of UEFI Modules To Coverage Guided Fuzzing Of UEFI Firmware 1

Moving From Dynamic Emulation of UEFI Modules To Coverage-Guided Fuzzing of UEFI Firmware

In Part 3 of our series on emulating, debugging and fuzzing UEFI modules, we provide a step-by-step guide to making a coverage-guided fuzzer for UEFI code.

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Misusing Msvsmon And The Windows Remote Debugger 3

Misusing msvsmon and the Windows Remote Debugger

The ability to remotely debug an application is a useful feature, but msvsmon.exe has security implications that organizations need to be aware of.

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Leveraging LD AUDIT To Beat The Traditional Linux Library Preloading Technique 4

Leveraging LD_AUDIT to Beat the Traditional Linux Library Preloading Technique

Abusing LD_PRELOAD to intercept library calls on Linux is a known threat actor technique, but it’s possible to load libaries even before that. Meet LD_AUDIT

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Moving From Manual RE Of UEFI Modules To Coverage Guided Fuzzing Of UEFI Firmware 3

Moving From Manual Reverse Engineering of UEFI Modules To Dynamic Emulation of UEFI Firmware

Learn how to emulate, trace, debug, and Reverse Engineer UEFI modules in part 2 of our new blog series on Firmware Security

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Case Study  Why You Shouldn’t Trust NTDLL From Kernel Image Load Callbacks 2

Case Study: Why You Shouldn’t Trust NTDLL from Kernel Image Load Callbacks

Read how we discovered and exploited several severe flaws in a security product’s kernel mode driver due to a lack of user mode input validation.

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Hacking Smart Devices For Fun Profit 3

Hacking Smart Devices for Fun and Profit

Presented at DEF CON 28 (2020), this is the story of how SentinelOne researcher Barak Sternberg found four IoT vulnerabilities in thousands of smart devices.

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Moving From Common Sense Knowledge About UEFI To Actually Dumping UEFI Firmware 6

Moving From Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI To Actually Dumping UEFI Firmware

The first in a series of posts for researchers on how to emulate, debug and fuzz UEFI modules, we begin with a refresher on how to dump SPI flash memory.

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Breaking EvilQuest Reversing A Custom MacOS Ransomware File Encryption Routine 8

Breaking EvilQuest | Reversing A Custom macOS Ransomware File Encryption Routine

A new macOS ransomware threat uses a custom file encryption routine not based on public key encryption. Jason Reaves shows how we broke it.

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