AutoProber

AutoProber AutoProber is the hardware hacker's flying probe automation stack for giving your agent everything it needs to go from "there's a new target on the plate" to probing individual pins in a safe way. Demo video: https://gainsec.com/autoprober-demo-mp4/ Flow 1. Tell the agent to ingest the...

Hardware Hacking Cheatsheet

Hardware Hacking Cheatsheet TOC Disclaimer I'm a noob who's trying to learn this type of things so maybe something could be not 100% correct Sorry for bad english Notes Follow the easyest path first methodology Sometimes you will need to solder stuff; here a quick and simple how to You could have...

awesome-connected-things-sec

Awesome Connected Things Security Security research and exploitation techniques for IoT, embedded, industrial, and automotive systems. !https://...

cgPwn

cgPwn - Cyber Grand Pwnage Box This is a Ubuntu VM tailored for hardware hacking, RE and Wargaming. Tools included Pwndbg Pwntools Binwalk Radare2 Capstone, Unicorn and Keystone Engines Qira Timeless Debugger AFL Valgrind , VGdb ROPGadget, XRop, Ropper, rp++ Intel PIN Angr z3 frida Compiler tools...

zyxel-p870hn-hardware-hacking

From a bare PCB to root: hardware-hacking a ZyXEL P-870HN over UART Two phone photos of an unlabeled router board → serial console → auth bypass → root shell — reproducing the real, still-unpatched chain CVE-2025-0890 hidden supervisor account + CVE-2024-40891 CLI command injection on hardware I...

awesome-connected-things-sec — Updated!

🔐 Awesome Connected Things Security Resources Security research and exploitation techniques for IoT, embedded, industrial, and automotive systems. !https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%96ROBOTICS-ROS&DDS...

Lessons from the Hardware Hacking Competitions: Verification Techniques, Findings, and Insights

Hardware hacking competitions have emerged as practical platforms for evaluating security weaknesses in complex System-on-Chip SoC designs while promoting security-aware verification and tool development. This paper presents a systematic study of SoC security verification through open-box hardwar...

Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks. Risks, techniques, and mitigations in hardware hacking

TL;DR Direct Memory Access DMA attacks are a powerful class of attack that give read and write access to the memory of a target system, bypassing the main CPU to gain kernel privileges. We became interested in DMA attacks for expanding the toolkit for rooting embedded devices. A lot of embedded...

A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers

The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1

Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part 3

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part III By Trellix · August 25, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn Contents Installing OnGuard by Third Party Vendor Exploitation and Hacking the Planet! Putting it all Together Building the Final Demo System The Demo Lessons and...

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part 3

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part III By Trellix · August 25, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn Contents Installing OnGuard by Third Party Vendor Exploitation and Hacking the Planet! Putting it all Together Building the Final Demo System The Demo Lessons and...

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar- Part 1

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part 1 By Trellix · August 11, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn Contents Executive Summary Target Selection What is it? Reconnaissance & Standard Operations Recon Standard Operations Hardware Hacking Hardware Hacking Shopping Lis...

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar- Part 1

A Door Isn’t a Door When It’s Ajar - Part 1 By Trellix · August 11, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn Contents Executive Summary Target Selection What is it? Reconnaissance & Standard Operations Recon Standard Operations Hardware Hacking Hardware Hacking Shopping Lis...

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System By Trellix · June 9, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn. Today at the Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference, Trellix Threat Labs is sharing new research into...

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System By Trellix · June 9, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn. Today at the Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference, Trellix Threat Labs is sharing new research into...

Keeping A Critical Eye on IoT Devices

Keeping a Critical Eye on IoT Devices By Sam Quinn · April 21, 2022 Trellix Labs is excited to announce the beginning of a new video series which captures one of our senior vulnerability researchers work on hacking an IoT device from beginning to end. This will conclude with the releasing of a ne...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon IoT Village, Part 1

This year, Rapid7 participated at the IoT Village during DefCon29 by running a hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of exposing attendees to concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics, including how to u...

HaXmas Hardware Hacking

Usually, when you read an IoT hacking report or blog post, it ends with something along the lines of, "and that's how I got root," or "and there was a secret backdoor credential," or "and every device in the field uses the same S3 bucket with no authentication." You know, something bad, and the...

SAS@Home Virtual Summit Showcases New Threat Intel, Industry Changes

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force in-person cybersecurity event cancellations, Kaspersky is forging ahead with a virtual security summit, SAS@home. Topics on the agenda include threat intel on advanced persistent threats APTs, new vulnerability research, and topics related to a...