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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Security audit of Mithril Security BlindAI

Mithril Security engaged a collaboration with Quarkslab to perform an audit of the BlindAI-preview, now known as BlindAI Core, which is an open-source confidential computing solution for querying and deploying AI models while guaranteeing data privacy. The goal of the audit was to evaluate the BlindAI resiliency based on the definition of a threat model after a refresh on the latest state-of-the-art.

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Windows Filtering Platform: Persistent state under the hood

Since Windows XP SP2, the Windows firewall is deployed and enabled by default in every Microsoft Windows operating system. Starting with Windows Vista the firewall relies on a set of API and services called the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). Although used by almost every Windows OS, WFP is still one of the relatively unknown beast that lies in the kernel. In this post we will see how the firewall manages its persistent state.

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