KASAN is now available for your own Windows Drivers: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/kasan

OK, but maybe Italy was an isolated case and ransom payment bans work elsewhere, right?

In fact, several countries ban the payment of ransom to kidnappers: Venezuela, Colombia, Nigeria...

Hey, let's take a look at Nigeria. Compared to it, the Italian mafia is peanuts. In Nigeria, kidnapping for ransom is an idustry. 7,568 abducted, 1056 killed in just one year.

In 2022, Nigeria passed a law, making ransom payments illegal. What effect did that have?

About what you'd expect by now:

Oh God, yes! When starting a qemu instance, you can pass it an fd on the command line for its listening socket for that chardev.

You can also tell it to listen on a TCP or UNIX socket, but as the starting process, you now need to try and connect multiple times until qemu is finally started and opened its listening socket. It also might never connect in case qemu fails to start. This is really annoying to handle properly in your code.

With the fd-passing, the parent process can create the listening socket, clear CLOEXEC on the socket, pass it to qemu and then connect to it. At that time it will either be open already or if qemu fails to start, the listening socket will be gone and the connect() fails.

I haven't tried it yet, but I need it for work and it sounds like a proper solution to a really annoying problem.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20180205152455.12088-10-berrange@redhat.com/

Unattended children get an IBM System/370 and a Cobol starter lecture.

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30051) https://www.coresecurity.com/core-labs/articles/windows-dwm-core-library-elevation-privilege-vulnerability-cve-2024-30051

Want to know more about the reverse engineering community? Šárka and Brent break down the 2024 results from our annual Reverse Engineering Survey in our latest blog post:

https://binary.ninja/2024/11/08/user-survey-results.html

Apple added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1. This is implemented in keybagd and the AppleSEPKeyStore kernel extension. It seems to have nothing to do with phone/wireless network state. Keystore is used when unlocking the device. So if you don't unlock your iPhone for a while... it will reboot!

In the news: "Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out"
https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/

iOS version diffs to see yourself:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ablacktop%2Fipsw-diffs%20inactivity_reboot&type=code

🍎🐛🎙️Following my #poc2024 talk we are releasing a blogpost series at Kandji, detailing the vulnerabilities of diskarbitrationd and storagekitd I discussed in my "Apple Disk-O Party" talk.

First part is out, and covers CVE-2024-44175.

https://www.kandji.io/blog/macos-audit-story-part1

Veeam security advisory from 06 November 2024 Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Vulnerability (CVE-2024-40715)
CVE-2024-40715 (7.7 high) Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Manager authentication bypass. No mention of exploitation.

#cybersecurity #infosec #vulnerability #CVE #veeam #cve_2024_40715

The contrast between two CUPS vulns is amazing. This one, CVE-2024-35235, seems to have flown completely under the radar - in total contrast to CVE-2024-47176. It was an LPE with an exploit chain that sounds very reliable. I only heard about it for the first time today.

https://bird.makeup/@snyksec/1841524163921453552

In case you missed it, here's the recording of our #HEXACON2024 talk "Exploiting File Writes in Hardened Environments"!

It's a short and sweet 30-minute talk, so grab a coffee and sit back while @scryh goes from HTTP request to ROP chain in Node.js ☕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmZNTP2KX4