Aaron Christophel | HowTo bypass APPROTECT of nRF52832 or nRF52840 with ESP32 Power glitching @atc1441 | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
In this video i am showing how to bypass the APPROTECT lock bit of an nRF52832 or nRF52840.

This enables to dump a locked flash of an nRF52 device to do further reversing or research on it.


Source code on GitHub Repo:
github.com/atc1441/ESP32_nRF52_SWD

Flashing video: youtu.be/Iu6RoXRZxOk

HxD Editor: mh-nexus.de/en/hxd


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Credit goes to LimitedResults for finding the exploit:
limitedresults.com/2020/06/nrf52-debug-resurrection-approtect-bypass-part-2