by Nicolas Guigo ICPin is an Intel pintool leveraging the framework's JIT mode designed to track a binary's integrity checks. It records all reads and all writes performed by the target executable or dynamically loaded library on its text section and outputs a human readable text file describing each memory access with its type (R|W) … Continue reading Tool Release – ICPin, an integrity-check and anti-debug detection pintool
Category: Research
Faster Modular Inversion and Legendre Symbol, and an X25519 Speed Record
Elliptic curves are commonly used to implement asymmetric cryptographic operations such as key exchange and signatures. These operations are used in many places, in particular to initiate secure network connections within protocols such as TLS and Noise. However, they are relatively expensive in terms of computing resources, especially for low-end embedded systems, which run on … Continue reading Faster Modular Inversion and Legendre Symbol, and an X25519 Speed Record
Technical Advisory – Lansweeper Privilege Escalation via CSRF Using HTTP Method Interchange (CVE-2020-13658)
Vendor: Lansweeper Software Vendor URL: https://www.lansweeper.com/ Versions affected: 8.0.130.17 known affected versions, others likely Systems Affected: Windows 10 Authors: Joshua Dow <joshua.dow@nccgroup.com>, Daniel King <daniel.king@nccgroup.com> Advisory URL / CVE Identifier: CVE-2020-13658 Risk: High Summary: Lansweeper is an application that gathers hardware and software information of computers and other devices on a computer network for management … Continue reading Technical Advisory – Lansweeper Privilege Escalation via CSRF Using HTTP Method Interchange (CVE-2020-13658)
Online Casino Roulette – A guideline for penetration testers and security researchers
Introduction In recent years, the gaming industry has grown significantly, especially casino games and sports betting. Online casinos consolidate their position as one of the main sources of entertainment in many countries worldwide, which evidently involves a notable rise in their turnover. For instance, in Spain alone, the gaming industry generated revenue of around €4,567 … Continue reading Online Casino Roulette – A guideline for penetration testers and security researchers
Extending a Thinkst Canary to become an interactive honeypot
In this post we explore how to use the extensible nature of Thinkst Canary to build a high interaction honeypot.
Conference Talks – September 2020
This month, NCC Group researchers will be presenting their work at the following conferences: Rami McCarthy, "AWS Security: Easy Wins and Enterprise Scale," to be presented at BSides Boston (Virtual - September 26 2020)Dirk-Jan Mollema, "Walking Your Dog in Multiple Forests: Breaking AD Trust Boundaries through Kerberos Vulnerabilities," to be presented at Black Hat Asia … Continue reading Conference Talks – September 2020
Whitepaper – Exploring the Security of KaiOS Mobile Applications
KaiOS is a mobile operating system, forked from the discontinued Firefox OS, in which all the mobile applications running on a KaiOS-based mobile device are built using web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In this independent research project, we demonstrate that six of the pre-installed mobile applications are vulnerable to remote, and local, … Continue reading Whitepaper – Exploring the Security of KaiOS Mobile Applications
Technical Advisory – wolfSSL TLS 1.3 Client Man-in-the-Middle Attack (CVE-2020-24613)
wolfSSL is a C-language-based SSL/TLS library targeted at IoT, embedded, and RTOS environments. wolfSSL incorrectly implements the TLS 1.3 client state machine. This allows attackers in a privileged network position to completely impersonate any TLS 1.3 servers and read or modify potentially sensitive information between clients using the wolfSSL library and these TLS servers.
Technical Advisory – Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities in KaiOS Pre-installed Mobile Applications
Multiple HTML injection vulnerabilities were found in several KaiOS mobile applications that are pre-installed on KaiOS mobile devices. The following vulnerabilities affected multiple KaiOS mobile devices: KaiOS Email Application HTML Injection (CVE-2019-14756)KaiOS Contacts Application HTML Injection (CVE-2019-14757)KaiOS File Manager Application HTML Injection (CVE-2019-14758)KaiOS Recorder Application HTML Injection (CVE-2019-14760)KaiOS Note Application HTML Injection (CVE-2019-14761)KaiOS FM Radio … Continue reading Technical Advisory – Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities in KaiOS Pre-installed Mobile Applications
Immortalising 20 Years of Epic Research
In December 2019 we launched this new technical security research blog site. As part of its launch we had cause to revisit our old blog website and found a myriad of forgotten whitepapers and conference presentations spanning NCC Group's history (formation in 1999). Deeply nested on our old blog site we found over 200 whitepapers … Continue reading Immortalising 20 Years of Epic Research