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P4wnP1-LTE

Reading time: ~12 min
Posted by Rogan Dawes on 09 July 2023
Categories: Hardware, Physical threats, Redteam
I’ve written a couple of blog posts in the past in which I explain how to use Marcus Mengs’ truly...

Investigating the Wink Hub 2

Reading time: ~15 min
Posted by Rogan Dawes on 26 May 2023
Categories: Hardware, Sensecon, Teardown
Rogan brought half of his hardware parts bin to the hackathon! Michael Rodger, Daniel Scragg, Isak van der Walt, Thulani...

DualSense Reverse Engineering

Reading time: ~7 min
Posted by Emmanuel Cristofaro on 23 November 2020
Categories: Fun, Hardware, Playstation, Reversing, Dual-pod-shock, Dualsense, Dualshock, Sony, Stutm
Ciao belli! On the 19th of November 2020, SONY finally released the new PlayStation 5 in the UK. A few...

Making the Perfect Red Team Dropbox (Part 2)

Reading time: ~18 min
Posted by Rogan Dawes on 09 July 2020
Categories: Hardware, Networking, Redteam, Training
In part 1 of this series, we set up the NanoPi R1S as a USB attack tool, covering OS installation,...

Making the Perfect Red Team Dropbox (Part 1)

Reading time: ~11 min
Posted by Rogan Dawes on 18 May 2020
Categories: Hardware, Redteam, Training, Usb
As part of our preparations for our upcoming RingZer0 “Q Division” Training, I have been working on making a software...

[Dual-Pod-Shock] Emotional abuse of a DualShock

Reading time: ~36 min
Posted by Emmanuel Cristofaro on 24 January 2020
Categories: Fun, Hardware, Playstation, Reversing
Hacking PlayStation DualShock controllers to stream audio to their internal speakers. Ciao a tutti. Introduction I didn’t really know what...

DEEP INSERT – Card Skimmer Research

Reading time: ~17 min
Posted by stuart on 02 August 2017
Categories: Hardware, Skimmers
So I get a phone call from Daniel on a Wednesday night, Stu, can you bring your hardware stuff with...

USaBUSe Linux updates

Reading time: ~6 min
Posted by Rogan Dawes on 10 March 2017
Categories: Abuse, Backdoor, Build-it, Conferences, Empire, Exploit, Hardware, Internals, Linux, Metasploit, Programming, Real-world, Research, Shells, Tunnelling
(If you’re new to this project, read the intro first) For the past few months, I’ve been working on porting...

Universal Serial aBUSe

Reading time: ~15 min
Posted by Dominic White on 15 August 2016
Categories: Defcon, Hardware, Usb
Last Saturday, at Defcon 24, we gave a talk entitled “Universal Serial aBUSe: Remote Physical Access Attacks” about some research...