Windows 10 x86/wow64 Userland heap
Introduction Hi all, Over the course of the past few weeks ago, I received a number of “emergency” calls from some relatives, asking me to look at their computer because “things were broken”, “things looked different” and “I think my computer got hacked”. I quickly realized that their computers got upgraded to Windows 10. We […]
BlackHatEU2013 – Day2 – Advanced Heap Manipulation in Windows 8
Good afternoon everyone, The next talk I will be covering today is presented by Zhenhua ‘Eric’ Liu, Senior Security researcher at Fortinet. Why doing this type of research. Facts : Exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities are more difficult today, because of OS security improvements and Sandboxing techniques implemented into various applications. Bypassing sandboxes often rely […]
HITB2012AMS Day 2 – Ghost in the Allocator
Ghost in the Allocator – Abusing the Windows 7 / 8 Low Fragmentation Heap After introducing himself, Steven Seeley, Senior Penetration Tester and Security Researcher at Stratsec starts his presentation by sharing the talk agenda: Why target the heap manager Heap terms Some Windows 7 theory WIndows 7 exploitation Changes introduced in Windows 8 Heap Windows […]