Re: SyScan'06 Highlight - Attacking Microsoft New Operating System (Vista)

["<...>" <massimo () grandmedia si>]

i wonder if joanna knows how much free consultancy she is giving to MS
doing this on the beta 2 kernel


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Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:36 PM
Subject: SyScan'06 Highlight - Attacking Microsoft New Operating System 
(Vista)


> This is a brand new presentation and its going public for the very first 
> time in SyScan'06.
>
> Joanna Rutkowska, a senior researcher of COSEINC Research, will present 
> her latest technique in bypassing and attacking the latest Mircosoft Vista 
> operating system kernel.
>
> The presentation will first present how to generically (i.e. not relaying 
> on any implementation bug) insert arbitrary code into the latest Vista 
> Beta 2 kernel (x64 edition), thus effectively bypassing the (in)famous 
> Vista policy for allowing only digitally singed code to be loaded into 
> kernel. The presented attack does not requite system reboot.
>
> Next, creation of Stealth by Design malware for Vista x64 will be briefly 
> discussed. This will be the base for introducing the new approach 
> (codenamed 'blue pill') for writing undetectable malware on the latest 
> AMD64 processors. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate that is possible (or 
> soon will be) to create an undetectable malware which is not based on a 
> concept, but, similarly to modern cryptography, on the strength of the 
> 'algorithm'.
>
> A working blue pill will be demonstrated.
>
> Please visit www.syscan.org for more.


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