ThinkstScapes Research Roundup - Q3 - 2023

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Cryptography still isn’t easy

certmitm: automatic exploitation of TLS certificate validation vulnerabilities

Aapo Oksman

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Escaping Phishermen Nets: Cryptographic Methods Unveiled in the Fight Against Reverse Proxy Attacks

Ksandros Apostoli

[Blog]

mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong

Michael Stepankin

[Slides] [Blog]

Ultrablue: User-friendly Lightweight TPM Remote Attestation over Bluetooth

Nicolas Bouchinet, Loïc Buckwell, and Gabriel Kerneis

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

HECO: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler

Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Miro Haller, and Anwar Hithnawi

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

[Continued] attack of the side-channels

Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings

Evangelos Bitsikas, Theodor Schnitzler, Christina Pöpper, and Aanjhan Ranganathan

[Paper] [Code]

Downfall: Exploiting Speculative Data Gathering

Daniel Moghimi

[Code] [Paper]

Your Clocks Have Ears – Timing-Based Browser-Based Local Network Port Scanner

Dongsung Kim

[Slides] [Demo] [Video]

Composition is hard in the cloud

Using Cloudflare to bypass Cloudflare

Florian Schweitzer and Stefan Proksch

[Blog]

The GitHub Actions Worm: Compromising GitHub repositories through the Actions dependency tree

Asaf Greenholts

[Slides] [Blog] [Video]

All You Need is Guest

Michael Bargury

[Slides] [Code]

Nifty sundries

Contactless Overflow: Critical contactless vulnerabilities in NFC readers used in point of sales and ATMs

Josep Pi Rodriguez

[Slides] [Video]

Defender-Pretender: When Windows Defender Updates Become a Security Risk

Omer Attias and Tomer Bar

[Slides] [Code]

Fuzz target generation using LLMs

Dongge Liu, Jonathan Metzman, and Oliver Chang

[Results] [Report] [Blog]

Route to Bugs: Analyzing the Security of BGP Message Parsing

Daniel dos Santos, Simon Guiot, Stanislav Dashevskyi, Amine Amri, and Oussama Kerro

[Slides] [Code]

It was harder to sniff Bluetooth through my mask during the pandemic…

Xeno Kovah

[Slides] [Data]