Cyfinoid Research at Hacker Summer Camp 2024

Hackersummercamp USA is an annual gathering of hackers (read infosec professionals / researchers, plain old hackers all encompasing) in the desserts of Nevada at sin city Las vegas.

This year is nothing different, you have BlackHat 2024, DEFCon 32, Bsides Las Vegas as the three main pillars and lots of other conferences and parties happening on the sides.

Cyfinoid Research since its inception has been present at these events in various capacities and we continue the tradition this year also. This year cyfinoid research’s calender of activity looks like this.

1. We are continuing with our “Attack and Defend Android Applications” class and we have two rounds of that class available in Virtual mode 3-4 Aug and 5-6 Aug
2. We have introduced our Multi Cloud Hacking class for the first time in BlackHat title Going beyond shells! – Hacking AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Aliyun (Virtual)
   Dates: Again available in virtual mode on August 3-4, 2024, and August 5-6, 2024
3. Our Founder “Anant Shrivastava” would be moderating a Birds of feather discussion ”Security Champions Meetup” with panelists including Dustin Lehr, Kymberlee Price, Tanya Janca.
4. Anant will also be representing Review Board for Mobile Track Meetup
5. Anant is one of the organizer for Hackathon event at Recon Village : August 9-10, 2024

Cyfinoid is based on research and what better way to celebrate research then to spotlight the must attend talks from this year’s BlackHat USA 2024 Program.

Following are the sessions we thing you should take time to attend physically or if not possible watch the video As soon as they appear in the blackhat App.

• Cracking the 5G Fortress: Peering Into 5G’s Vulnerability Abyss by Kai Tu, Yilu Dong, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Weixuan Wang, Tianwei Wu, Syed Rafiul Hussain
• The Way to Android Root: Exploiting Your GPU on Smartphone by Xiling Gong, Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov
• Attacking Samsung Galaxy A* Boot Chain, and Beyond by Maxime Rossi Bellom, Raphael Neveu, Damiano Melotti, Gabrielle Viala
• Use Your Spell Against You: Threat Prevention of Smart Contract Exploit By Reusing Opcode Trace by Yajin Zhou
• Listen to the Whispers: Web Timing Attacks that Actually Work by James Kettle
• Kicking in the Door to the Cloud: Exploiting Cloud Provider Vulnerabilities for Initial Access by Nick Frichette
• The GCP Jenga Tower: Hacking Millions of Google’s Servers With a Single Package (and more) by Liv Matan
• Self-Hosted GitHub CI/CD Runners: Continuous Integration, Continuous Destruction by Adnan Khan, John Stawinski

While these are some of our favourite talks from BlackHat Only our founder Anant Shrivastava has outlines his personal favourite talks from other conferences also in his blog.

Hoping to see you in Vegas, and if you want to connect feel free to connect with us via contact form or over at Linkedin or Connect with Anant Shrivastava