TR17 - Software Attacks on Hypervisor Emulation of Hardware

Wireless Village·33 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Travis Goodspeed

Travis Goodspeed provides an update on the Goodwatch open-source wrist-worn RF radio hacking and packet manipulation platform.

Main Stage·43 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2015
• Location: Las Vegas

Yaniv Balmas · Lior Oppenheim

Yaniv Balmas and Lior Oppenheim demonstrate reverse engineering KVM switch firmware, subverting the 8051 microcontroller to install an undetectable, persistent hardware keylogger.

Main Stage·44 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2015
• Location: Las Vegas

Yuriy Bulygin

Intel Security researcher Yuriy Bulygin explores firmware and hardware emulation vulnerabilities in modern hypervisors, demonstrating SMM privilege escalation from guest VMs.