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.

Falco's maintainers, with support from Cloud Native Computing Foundation, engaged with Quarkslab to perform an audit of Falco, an open-source cloud-native runtime security tool. The goal of the audit was to assist the Falco maintainers to increase their security posture using static and dynamic analysis (fuzzing in particular) and was organized by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc.

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 .

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.

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.

A retrospective on the 3 past years of development and an introduction to the future of Irma, our File Analysis Solution.

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.

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.

At Quarkslab, we don't only break software and exploit vulnerabilities, we also try to create innovative and efficient solutions to counter them. Cappsule is one of those solutions.

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.