Black Hat | Physical Attacks Against Smartphones @BlackHatOfficialYT | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 8 hours ago
Android devices are constantly improving their security to protect against attackers with physical access, with new protection techniques being added year-by-year. This talk aims to demonstrate vulnerabilities in modern Android smartphones that are still viable, despite the mitigations in place.
In the first phase of this talk, we will discuss the analysis and exploitation of vendor-customized versions of Android's Recovery mode, demonstrating weaknesses that allow for privilege escalation to root, and traversal from Recovery to Android, without Bootloader access....
By: Christopher Wade
Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#physical-attacks-against-smartphones-32485
Android devices are constantly improving their security to protect against attackers with physical access, with new protection techniques being added year-by-year. This talk aims to demonstrate vulnerabilities in modern Android smartphones that are still viable, despite the mitigations in place.
In the first phase of this talk, we will discuss the analysis and exploitation of vendor-customized versions of Android's Recovery mode, demonstrating weaknesses that allow for privilege escalation to root, and traversal from Recovery to Android, without Bootloader access....
By: Christopher Wade
Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#physical-attacks-against-smartphones-32485
