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NCC Group researchers named amongst MSRC’s Most Valuable Security Researchers in 2020

Yesterday, the Microsoft Security Response Center announced their Most Valuable Security Researchers for 2020 (MVRs). This honour, awarded annually by Microsoft during Black Hat USA, is a part of MSRC's Researcher Recognition program, and recognizes the top security researchers globally based upon the volume, accuracy, and impact of their vulnerability reports to Microsoft over the … Continue reading NCC Group researchers named amongst MSRC’s Most Valuable Security Researchers in 2020 →

Lights, Camera, HACKED! An insight into the world of popular IP Cameras

Preface During the Covid-19 pandemic, the battle to secure and protect businesses as well as consumers changed from the office environment to our homes, but this did not stop us from working on research projects aimed at contributing to the creation of a safer online world. Working from home, this research was carried out to … Continue reading Lights, Camera, HACKED! An insight into the world of popular IP Cameras →

Conference Talks – August 2020

This month, NCC Group researchers will be presenting their work at the following conferences: Dirk-Jan Mollema, "ROADtools and ROADrecon," to be presented at Black Hat USA 2020 (Virtual - August 1-6 2020)Chris Nevin, "Carnivore: Microsoft External Attack Tool" to be presented at Black Hat USA 2020 (Virtual - August 1-6 2020)Rory McCune, "Mastering Container Security … Continue reading Conference Talks – August 2020 →

Tool Release – Winstrument: An Instrumentation Framework for Windows Application Assessments

by George Osterweil Winstrument is a modular framework built on top of Frida designed to help testers reverse engineer Windows applications and assess their attack surface. Motivation Winstrument is built on top of Frida, a powerful dynamic instrumentation framework which aids reverse engineering and debugging by injecting into a process a Javascript runtime with an … Continue reading Tool Release – Winstrument: An Instrumentation Framework for Windows Application Assessments →

Tool Release: Sinking U-Boots with Depthcharge

Depthcharge is an extensible Python 3 toolkit designed to aid security researchers when analyzing a customized, product-specific build of the U-Boot bootloader. This blog post details the motivations for Depthcharge’s creation, highlights some key features, and exemplifies its use in a “tethered jailbreak” of a smart speaker that leverages secure boot functionality. The first three … Continue reading Tool Release: Sinking U-Boots with Depthcharge →

Technical Advisory: Heartbleed chained with a Pass-the-Hash attack leads to device compromise on TP-Link C200 IP Camera

Vendor: TP-Link Vendor URL: https://www.tp-link.com/uk/ Versions affected: 1.7.0 Systems Affected: Tapo C200 Author: Dale Pavey Risk: High Summary: The device is vulnerable to the heartbleed vulnerability and a Pass-the-Hash attack. Impact: Successfully exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability leads to the device being remotely taken over using the memory-leaked user hash and the Pass-the-Hash attack. Details: Using … Continue reading Technical Advisory: Heartbleed chained with a Pass-the-Hash attack leads to device compromise on TP-Link C200 IP Camera →

Public Report – Qredo Apache Milagro MPC Cryptographic Assessment

During the spring of 2020, Qredo engaged NCC Group Cryptography Services to conduct a security assessment of the Apache Milagro MPC library. This library implements the primitives necessary to instantiate the multi-party ECDSA signature scheme provided in Gennaro and Goldfeder’s Fast Multiparty Threshold ECDSA with Fast Trustless Setup. This assessment occurred over the course of … Continue reading Public Report – Qredo Apache Milagro MPC Cryptographic Assessment →

Pairing over BLS12-381, Part 2: Curves

This is the second of three code-centric blog posts on pairing based cryptography. The first post [1] covered modular arithmetic, finite fields, the embedding degree, and presented an implementation of a 12-degree prime extension field tower. The series will ultimately conclude with a detailed review of the popular BLS12-381 pairing operations found in a variety … Continue reading Pairing over BLS12-381, Part 2: Curves →

Understanding the root cause of F5 Networks K52145254: TMUI RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-5902

CVE-2020-5902 was disclosed on July 1st, 2020 by F5 Networks in K52145254 as a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution vulnerability in the Big-IP administrative interface. This blog looks at the root causes of both the exploit paths discovered which boil down to subtle configuration issues and differences in behavior between Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat when dealing with an uncommon URI element called matrix (or path) parameters.