ThinkstScapes Research Roundup - Q1 - 2022

Hyntrospect: a fuzzer for Hyper-V devices Diane Dubois [Slides] [Paper] [Code] [Video] Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel Valentina Palmiotti [Blog] The AMD Branch (Mis)predictor: Where No CPU has Gone Before Pawel Wieczorkiewicz [Blog part 1] [Blog part 2] Dynamic Process Isolation Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Kenton Varda, Thomas Schuster, Daniel Gruss, and Michael Schwarz [Paper] Another Brick in the Wall: Uncovering SMM Vulnerabilities in HP Firmware Itai Liba, and Assaf Carlsbad [Blog] [Code] Confidential Containers: Bringing Confidential Computing to the Kubernetes Workload Masses Samuel Ortiz [Video] Kubernetes Meets Confidential Computing - The Different Ways of Scaling Sensitive Workloads Moritz Eckert [Video] Implementing Post-quantum Cryptography for Developers Julius Hekkala, Kimmo Halunen, and Visa Vallivaara [Paper] CMUA-Watermark: A Cross-Model Universal Adversarial Watermark for Combating Deepfakes Hao Huang, Yongtao Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Yu Ze Zhang, Yuheng Li, Zhi Tang, Wei Chu, Jingdong Chen, Weisi Lin, and Kai-Kuang Ma [Paper] [Code] Leashing the Inner Demons: Self-Detoxification for Language Models Canwen Xu, Zexue He, Zhankui He, and Julian McAuley [Paper] [Code] Fooling the Eyes of Autonomous Vehicles: Robust Physical Adversarial Examples Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems Wei Jia, Zhaojun Lu, Haichun Zhang, Zhenglin Liu, Jie Wang, and Gang Qu [Paper] Synthetic Disinformation Attacks on Automated Fact Verification Systems Yibing Du, Antoine Bosselut, Christopher D. Manning [Paper] Why No One Pwned Synology at Pwn2Own and Tianfu Cup in 2021 Eugene Lim, and Loke Hui Yi [Slides] DRAWN APART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting Tomer Laor, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey, Vitaly Dyadyuk, Pierre Laperdrix, Clémentine Maurice, Yossi Oren, Romain Rouvoy, Walter Rudametkin, and Yuval Yarom [Paper] [Code] Attacking JavaScript Engines in 2022 Samuel Groß, and Amanda Burnett [Slides] Security Analysis of MTE Through Examples Saar Amar [Slides] [Video] An Armful of CHERIs Saar Amar, Nicholas Joly, David Chisnall, Manuel Costa, Sylvan Clebsch, Wes Filardo, Boris Köpf, Robert Norton-Wright, and Matthew Parkison [Blog]