Let’s Go into the rabbit hole (part 1) — the challenges of dynamically hooking Golang programs

Golang is the most used programming language for developing cloud technologies. Tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Containerd and gVisor are written in Go. Despite the fact that the code of these programs is open source, there is no way to analyze and extend their behavior dynamically without recompiling their code. Is this due to the complex internals of the language? In this blog post, we’ll look into the challenges of developing and inserting runtime hooks in Golang programs.

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CVE-2020-0069: Autopsy of the Most Stable MediaTek Rootkit

In March 2020, Google patched a critical vulnerability affecting many MediaTek based devices. This vulnerability had been known by MediaTek since April 2019, and later exploited in the wild! In this post, we give some details about this vulnerability and see how we can use it to achieve kernel memory reads and writes.

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Reverse-engineering Broadcom wireless chipsets

Broadcom is one of the major vendors of wireless devices worldwide. Since these chips are so widespread they constitute a high value target to attackers and any vulnerability found in them should be considered to pose high risk. In this blog post I provide an account of my internship at Quarkslab which included obtaining, reversing and fuzzing the firmware, and finding a few new vulnerabilities.

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