SCADA, A PLC’s Story

Previous month I've been a speaker at the M0leCon Conference (Turin, Italy, 30 November) with a talk named:

SCADA, A PLC's Story

During the last few years, SCADA quickly gained the major news headlights with different frightening articles: from STUXNET to breaches like the electrical power supply grid in Ukraine (December 2015). Since SCADA systems are actively used across various industries (oil & gas, pharma, power plants, critical infrastructures) to perform critical operations on daily basis, SCADA security has also become...

SolarPuttyDecrypt

During a recent Red Team engagement, I was able to become domain admin on the client’s network; I decided to investigate further into the “sys admin” workstations and management network in order to recover more information about the network topology and assets, dumping more password and gaining access to firewalls/switches and servers’ VLANs. Enumerating the sysadmin’s workstations, I discovered a windows tool used to connect via SSH.

TL;DR

SolarPuttyDecrypt is a post-exploitation/forensics tool to decrypt SolarPuTTY's sessions files and retrieve plain-text credentials. It...

State of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) in Italy

Industrial Control System, what are they?

TL;DR: In a nutshell, Industrial control systems (ICS) are “computers” (PLC) that control the world around you. They're responsible for managing the air conditioning in your office, the turbines at a power plant, the lighting at the theatre or the robots at a factory Industrial Control System (ICS) is a general term used to describe several types of control systems and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control. Such systems can range from a few modular panel-mounted...

VPN Leak

(Edited on 06/04: in order to reflect the actual situation)

TL:DR: VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC. I’ve tested hundred VPN and Proxy providers and 19 of them leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC (16%)

You can check if your VPN leaks visiting: http://ip.voidsec.com Here you can find the complete list of the VPN providers that I’ve tested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nm7mxfFvmdn-3Az-BtE5O0BIdbJiIAWUnkoAF_v_0ug/edit#gid=0 Add a comment or send me a tweet if you have updated results for any of the VPN which I am missing...

VoidSec CTF: Secure the Flag – Writeup

It has been a while since my last blog post, so I’m (finally) writing the write-up of the: VoidSec CTF Secure the flag. The CTF was made possible thanks to the sponsorship with Bitdefender that put some licenses for its product as a prize for the first three winners. This CTF was web based, no binary exploitation nor reverse engineering and/or crypto was involved. Before I dive into deep, let me explain what was the goal of this CTF...

Cybersecurity in Italy

First of all, a small disclaimer: any statement inside this article is based on my own personal point of view. I deliberately generalized and I am aware of the presence of certain exceptions in my country, but this sum up my opinion and there will be people that will be not aligned with those thoughts. After almost 5 years inside the cyber-security field I would like to point out some elements, that according to my point of view, are not working...

Deep Web & Hacking Communities

Qualche mese fa sono stato intervistato da Pierluigi Paganini per Infosec Institute riguardo l’argomento: Hacking Communities in the Deep Web. Vi propongo quindi la sessione di Q&A tradotta in Italiano, l’articolo originale è ben più vasto di questo piccolo “recap” e ne consiglio la lettura.

Si sente spesso parlare di Deep Web, cosa s’intende con questo termine?

Il Deep Web è l’insieme di tutti i contenuti internet non indicizzati dai motori di ricerca e pertanto difficilmente raggiungibili dagli...

Android (Un)Security Guidelines

Venerdì 10 Aprile si è concluso a Torino il DroidCon: il congresso Europeo più importante per gli sviluppatori del sistema operativo Android e ritrovo per tutti gli appassionati. Quest’anno l’evento ha raggiunto il traguardo di circa 700 partecipanti e 70 speaker. Noi di VoidSec siamo stati relatori del talk:

Android (Un)Security Guidelines

Cosa fare, ma soprattutto, cosa non fare durante il ciclo di sviluppo di un'applicazione Android. In questo talk abbiamo mostrato quali sono le possibili problematiche e i vettori di attacco nello...

Panoramica degli Attacchi 2014

In quest’articolo voglio riassumere brevemente e per settore alcuni degli attacchi informatici che, a mio parere, risultano essere tra i più significativi dell’anno 2014. In particolare, la prossima settimana a Milano, il 17,18 e 19 Marzo si terrà il Security Summit, una manifestazione dedicata alla sicurezza delle informazioni, delle reti e dei sistemi informatici che, da anni, accoglie i partecipanti con contenuti e approfondimenti sull’evoluzione tecnologica del mercato. Durante il Summit verrà presentato il Rapporto Clusit...

GHOST, Analisi Tecnica

GHOST è una grave vulnerabilità presente nella libreria glibc in Linux e consente agli attaccanti di eseguire codice remoto (RCE – Remote Code Execution) senza avere alcuna conoscenza preliminare delle credenziali del sistema. A questa vulnerabilità è stato assegnato il CVE-2015-0235. La vulnerabilità è stata scoperta dai ricercatori di Qualys e colpisce la libreria dalla versione 2.2, inclusa nei sistemi Linux da Novembre dell’anno 2000. Il bug è stato corretto il 21 Maggio 2013 (tra le release 2.17 e...