Director at Nemesis Breach and Attack Simulation
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Talks Delivered
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Events Spoken At
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Countries Visited
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Years Speaking
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Total Talks Given
Markus Vervier is a security researcher from Germany. Software security is his main focus of work. During the last 15 years he collected professional experience in offensive IT security working as a penetration tester and security consultant for highly regarded companies. His experience combined with his personal passion regarding security research made him start his own company in 2015. Besides his daily security work, he is very actively practicing security research and discovers high profile vulnerabilities regularly such as the recent libotr heap overwrite.
Areas of Expertise
With the increasing adoption of the embedded SIM (eSIM) or embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC), new connectivity opportunities and conveniences are emerging for users. However, with these advances emerge new potential vulnerabilities and security implications.
This presentation will shed light on the yet unexplored attack surface of eSIM technology and highlight the potential risks and challenges of this now widely deployed technology. Support for eSIM is now available in modern mobile phones and also in popular desktop devices such as Lenovo Thinkpads running Microsoft Windows 10 and 11. By exploring the intricacies of eSIM security, we aim to raise awareness to the potential for offensive operations serving as technology but also in terms of post compromise situations.
With the increasing adoption of the embedded SIM (eSIM) or embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC), new connectivity opportunities and conveniences are emerging for users. However, with these advances emerge new potential vulnerabilities and security implications.
This presentation will shed light on the yet unexplored attack surface of eSIM technology and highlight the potential risks and challenges of this now widely deployed technology. Support for eSIM is now available in modern mobile phones and also in popular desktop devices such as Lenovo Thinkpads running Microsoft Windows 10 and 11. By exploring the intricacies of eSIM security, we aim to raise awareness to the potential for offensive operations serving as technology but also in terms of post compromise situations
Signal is the most trusted secure messaging and secure voice application, recommended by Edward Snowden and the Grugq. And indeed Signal uses strong cryptography, relies on a solid system architecture, and you’ve never heard of any vulnerability in its code base. That’s what this talk is about: hunting for vulnerabilities in Signal.
We will present vulnerabilities found in the Signal Android client, in the underlying Java libsignal library, and in example usage of the C libsignal library. Our demos will show how these can be used to crash Signal remotely, to bypass the MAC authentication for certain attached files, and to trigger memory corruption bugs. Combined with vulnerabilities in the Android system it is even possible to remotely brick certain Android devices.
We will demonstrate how to initiate a permanent boot loop via a single Signal message. We will also describe the general architecture of Signal, its attack surface, the tools you can use to analyze it, and the general threat model for secure mobile communication apps.
