All Posts Tagged With: "Black Hat conference"
Azure Uses Intel Virtualization Extensions To Counter Malware
Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa, has developed a new tool called Azure, which takes advantage of the virtualization extensions in Intel’s chips to evade the virtual machine and sandbox checks malware authors often include in their ‘work’.
22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedInvisible Things Lab: Hypervisors Mucho Hackable
Security researchers from Invisible Things Lab claim will be demonstrating how easy it is to hack hypervisors at the next Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in August. More specifically, they’ll be discussing the (in)security of the Xen hypervisor, such as how to plant rootkits, how to bypass various hypervisor anti-subverting techniques, as well as how “Bluepills” can be used in bare-metal hypervisor compromises. They plan on releasing proof-of-concept code.
8Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
