Assistant Professor & Director at University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Dr. Bramwell Brizendine completed his Ph.D. in Cyber Operations. A security researcher, currently Bramwell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and he is the founding Director of the Vulnerability and Exploitation Research for Offensive and Novel Attacks (VERONA Lab). A cybersecurity expert, Bramwell has taught numerous undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level courses in reverse engineering, software exploitation, advanced software exploitation, malware analysis, and offensive security. Additionally, Bramwell has authored several important cybersecurity tools, including JOP ROCKET, SHAREM, ShellWasp, and ROP ROCKET, which are open source and freely available. Bramwell was a PI on a $300,000 NSA research grant to develop a shellcode analysis framework, SHAREM. Bramwell is a 2025 recipient of the DARPA YFA for $500,000. Bramwell has been a speaker at many top security conferences across the globe, including different regional variations of Black Hat, DEFCON, Hack in the Box, and more.
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High-entropy ASLR is Microsoft’s crown jewel mitigation, intended to make ASLR bypasses virtually impossible. In this talk, we show how ROP can generate nine extremely reliable, universal ASLR bypasses for essential Windows system DLLs, greatly expanding the attack surface. This deep technical dive explores Windows internals and the ASLR bypasses, each with multiple variants that weaponize little known features. We also share custom tooling that can automate generating these bypasses.
