Real World Cryptography Conference 2024
This year’s Real World Cryptography Conference recently took place in Toronto, Canada. As usual, this conference organized by the IACR showcased recent academic results and industry perspectives on current cryptography topics over three days of presentations. A number of co-located events also took place before and after the conference, including the FHE.org Conference, the Real […]
HITB Phuket 2023 – Exploiting the Lexmark PostScript Stack
Aaron Adams presented this talk at HITB Phuket on the 24th August 2023. The talk detailed how NCC Exploit Development Group (EDG) in Pwn2Own 2022 Toronto was able to exploit two different PostScript vulnerabilities in Lexmark printers. The presentation is a good primer for those interested in further researching the Lexmark PostScript stack, and also […]
Real World Cryptography Conference 2023 – Part II
After a brief interlude, filled with several articles from the Cryptography Services team, we’re back with our final thoughts from this year’s Real World Cryptography Conference. In case you missed it, check out Part I for more insights. Interoperability in E2EE Messaging A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of platform interoperability. The EU […]
Eurocrypt 2023: Death of a KEM
Last month I was lucky enough to attend Eurocrypt 2023, which took place in Lyon, France. It was my first chance to attend an academic cryptography conference and the experience sat somewhere in between the familiar cryptography of the Real World Crypto conference and the abstract world of black holes and supergravity conferences which I […]
Real World Cryptography Conference 2023 – Part I
The annual Real World Cryptography Conference organized by the IACR recently took place in Tokyo, Japan. On top of 3 days of excellent talks, RWC was preceded by the 2nd annual FHE.org Conference and the Real World Post-Quantum Cryptography Workshop and followed by the High Assurance Crypto Software Workshop. Nearly all of NCC Group’s Cryptography […]
Detecting Mimikatz with Busylight
In 2015 Raphael Mudge released an article [1] that detailed that versions of mimikatz released after 8th of October, 2015 had a new module that was utilising certain types of external USB devices to flash lights in different colours if mimikatz was executed. The technique presented in the article required certain kind of busylights that […]
Conference Talks – September/October 2022
Throughout September and October, members of NCC Group will be presenting their work at SANS CyberThreat, 44CON, ResponderCon, BSides St John’s, ICMC, DevOps World, RootCon, Hexacon, and Hardwear.io NL. Please join us! Enterprise IR: Live free, live large Ollie Whitehouse Eric Shamper SANS CyberThreat 22 September 12-13, 2022Abstract forthcoming. Mastering Container Security NCC Group 44CON […]
NCC Group Research at Black Hat USA 2022 and DEF CON 30
This year, NCC Group researchers will be presenting at least five presentations at Black Hat USA and DEF CON 30. A guide to these presentations (abstracts, dates, and links) is included below. We will also update this post with any additional presentations as they are accepted and announced. Virtually or in-person, we hope you will […]