This blog post introduces QBDL (QuarkslaB Dynamic Loader) as well as a use case which runs NVIDIA NGX SDK under Linux. You can take a look at the project on Github: https://github.com/quarkslab/QBDL .
more ...Oxen mandated Quarkslab to perform an audit of their instant messaging solution Session . This application, forked from Signal, aims to improve users privacy by using an onion routing mechanism . This mechanism differs from Tor's one by requiring a deposit in their own cryptocurrency to operate a Service Node (Snode ), the Oxen equivalent of a Tor Entry, Relay or Exit Node. While reviewing the architecture of this solution, we found some issues and provided recommendations to improve parts of the implementations.
more ...Ansible is an open-source software automating configuration management and software deployment. Ansible is used in Quarkslab to manage our infrastructure and in our product Irma. In order to have an idea of the security of Ansible, we conducted a security assessment. This blogpost presents our findings.
more ...A retrospective on the 3 past years of development and an introduction to the future of Irma, our File Analysis Solution.
more ...This blog post demonstrates through an example how the Epona obfuscating compiler, from the Epona Application Protection Suite, achieves the challenge of facilitating the everyday experience of its users while enabling better obfuscation schemes trade-offs.
more ...Cappsule was released a few weeks ago and we're happy of the positive attention received. However, relying on a custom hypervisor make its usage quite difficult across various distros. This blogpost explains how the same goals can be achieved on Linux with usual software. Impatient readers can directly checkout NoFear's GitHub.
more ...Obfuscation is made of many different tricks. One we meet very often is mixed instructions who make computations mixing usual arithmetic (ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV) and boolean one (XOR, AND, NOT, OR). All tools get lost when it comes to cleaning this kind of very messy blocks of instructions, and that is why we designed Arybo. With Arybo, analyzing such expressions become way more easy.
more ...This post deals with the new features in IRMA 1.3.0 released earlier this month, from both a user and a contributor point of view.
more ...A modest comparison between two ways of storing our unstructured data, from MongoDB to Elasticsearch.
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