Zero Day Initiative posts their trends and observations from their threat hunting highlights of 2024, macOS has a sysctl bug, and a technique leverages CloudFlare to deanonymize users on messaging apps. PortSwigger also publishes a post on the Cookie Sandwich technique, and Subaru's weak admin panel security allows tracking and controlling other people's vehicles.

This week features a mix of topics, from polyglot PDF/JSON to android kernel vulnerabilities. Project Zero also publishes a post about excavating an exploit strategy from crash logs of an In-The-Wild campaign.

Specter and zi discuss their winter break, cover some interesting CCC talks, and discuss the summary judgement in the WhatsApp vs. NSO Group case.

In our last episode of 2024, we delve into some operating system bugs in both Windows and Linux, as well as some bugs that are not bugs but rather AI slop.

This week's episode contains some LLM hacking and attacks on classifiers, as well as the renewal of DMA attacks with SD Express and the everlasting problems of null bytes.

A short episode this week, featuring Keyhole which abuses a logic bug in Windows Store DRM, an OAuth flow issue, and a CSRF protection bypass.

Linux userspace is still a mess and has some bad bugs in root utilities, and Vaultwarden has an interesting auth bypass attack.

This week, we dive into some changes to V8CTF, the FortiJump Higher bug in Fortinet's FortiManager, as well as some coverage instrumentation on blackbox macOS binaries via Pishi.

Methodology is the theme of this week's episode. We cover posts about static analysis via CodeQL, as well as a novel blackbox binary querying language called QueryX. Project Zero also leverages Large Language Models to successfully find a SQLite vulnerability. Finally, we wrap up with some discussion on Hexacon and WOOT talks, with a focus on Clem1's In-The-Wild exploit chains insights via Google's Threat Analysis Group.

In this week's episode, we talk a little bit about LLMs and how they can be used with static analysis. We also cover GitHub Security Blog's post on attacking browser extensions, as well as a somewhat controversial CyberPanel Pre-Auth RCE that was disclosed.