ThinkstScapes Research Roundup - Q1 - 2022

ThinkstScapes

Hyntrospect: a fuzzer for Hyper-V devices

Diane Dubois

[Slides] [Paper] [Code] [Video]

Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel

Valentina Palmiotti

[Blog]

The AMD Branch (Mis)predictor: Where No CPU has Gone Before

Pawel Wieczorkiewicz

[Blog part 1] [Blog part 2]

Dynamic Process Isolation

Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Kenton Varda, Thomas Schuster, Daniel Gruss, and Michael Schwarz

[Paper]

Another Brick in the Wall: Uncovering SMM Vulnerabilities in HP Firmware

Itai Liba, and Assaf Carlsbad

[Blog] [Code]

Confidential Containers: Bringing Confidential Computing to the Kubernetes Workload Masses

Samuel Ortiz

[Video]

Kubernetes Meets Confidential Computing - The Different Ways of Scaling Sensitive Workloads

Moritz Eckert

[Video]

Implementing Post-quantum Cryptography for Developers

Julius Hekkala, Kimmo Halunen, and Visa Vallivaara

[Paper]

CMUA-Watermark: A Cross-Model Universal Adversarial Watermark for Combating Deepfakes

Hao Huang, Yongtao Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Yu Ze Zhang, Yuheng Li, Zhi Tang, Wei Chu, Jingdong Chen, Weisi Lin, and Kai-Kuang Ma

[Paper] [Code]

Leashing the Inner Demons: Self-Detoxification for Language Models

Canwen Xu, Zexue He, Zhankui He, and Julian McAuley

[Paper] [Code]

Fooling the Eyes of Autonomous Vehicles: Robust Physical Adversarial Examples Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems

Wei Jia, Zhaojun Lu, Haichun Zhang, Zhenglin Liu, Jie Wang, and Gang Qu

[Paper]

Synthetic Disinformation Attacks on Automated Fact Verification Systems

Yibing Du, Antoine Bosselut, Christopher D. Manning

[Paper]

Why No One Pwned Synology at Pwn2Own and Tianfu Cup in 2021

Eugene Lim, and Loke Hui Yi

[Slides]

DRAWN APART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting

Tomer Laor, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey, Vitaly Dyadyuk, Pierre Laperdrix, Clémentine Maurice, Yossi Oren, Romain Rouvoy, Walter Rudametkin, and Yuval Yarom

[Paper] [Code]

Attacking JavaScript Engines in 2022

Samuel Groß, and Amanda Burnett

[Slides]

Security Analysis of MTE Through Examples

Saar Amar

[Slides] [Video]

An Armful of CHERIs

Saar Amar, Nicholas Joly, David Chisnall, Manuel Costa, Sylvan Clebsch, Wes Filardo, Boris Köpf, Robert Norton-Wright, and Matthew Parkison

[Blog]