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iOS kernel exploitation archaeology (34th Chaos Communication Congress)
Patroklos Argyroudis
On December 27th 2017 I presented at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) a talk on the technical details and the process of reverse engineering and re-implementation of the evasi0n7 jailbreak's main kernel exploit, titled "iOS kernel exploitation archaeology". Actually, I gave the same talk at the WarCon...
Shadow v2 public release
Patroklos Argyroudis
About four months ago (April 2017), Vasilis Tsaousoglou and myself presented our work on exploiting Android's libc allocator at the 2017 INFILTRATE conference (Miami, Florida). Since version 5.0, Android has adopted the jemalloc allocator as its default libc malloc(3) implementation. For our talk we extended our...
OR'LYEH? The Shadow over Firefox (INFILTRATE 2015)
Patroklos Argyroudis
About two months ago (April 15th 2015) I visited Miami and presented at the INFILTRATE Security Conference a talk on Firefox heap exploitation, titled "OR'LYEH? The Shadow over Firefox". The organization of the conference was flawless and the people I met there were amazing. A special thank you to the Immunity team...
Project Heapbleed
Patroklos Argyroudis
I recently presented a talk on heap exploitation abstraction at two conferences, namely ZeroNights 2014 (Moscow, Russia) and BalCCon 2014 (Novi Sad, Serbia). The talk titled "Project Heapbleed", collected the experience of exploiting allocators in various different target applications and platforms. The talk focused...
Heap Exploitation Abstraction by Example - OWASP AppSec Research 2012
Patroklos Argyroudis
This year's OWASP AppSec Research conference took place in Athens, Greece and we were planning to be there as participants. However, the day before the conference, Konstantinos Papapanagiotou (General Chair) asked if we could do a presentation to replace a cancelled talk. Myself and Chariton Karamitas agreed to help...
Black Hat USA 2012 update
Patroklos Argyroudis
This year we have presented our jemalloc exploitation research work at Black Hat USA 2012, the leading information security conference. Our researchers Patroklos Argyroudis and Chariton Karamitas visited Caesar's Palace at Las Vegas, Nevada and delivered the talk.
The Linux kernel memory allocators from an exploitation perspective
Patroklos Argyroudis
In anticipation of Dan Rosenberg's talk on exploiting the Linux kernel's SLOB memory allocator at the Infiltrate security conference and because I recently had a discussion with some friends about the different kernel memory allocators in Linux, I decided to write this quick introduction. I will present some of the...