News

• November 19, 2021

  NEW: Matheus E. Garbelini, PhD student in our group, wins Intel Bug Bounty Award to enable discovering two Intel AX200 attacks under the BrakTooth family. The Intel Bug Bounty Award is given for security researchers that discover and report flaws in Intel products. Matheus has been awarded USD 3,000 for each of the Intel AX200 attacks under BrakTooth family, resulting a total award value of USD 6,000.

• November 08, 2021

  NEW: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, encourages manufacturers, vendors, and developers to review BrakTooth vulnerabilities and patch or find workarounds to counter BrakTooth flaws. See the official CISA announcement and some notable coverage at Bleeping Computer, Threatpost, and PCMag Magazine.

• October 14, 2021

  NEW: BrakTooth research was leveraged into improvements in Keysight IoT Security Assessment software. See the official press release from Keysight here and a coverage of this news here. We are glad that the research done in our group made to industry scale security assessment software. This is also the first time the industry translation of our research on wireless fuzzing is publicly disclosed by Keysight Technologies and other mediums.

• September 13, 2021

  NEW: BrakTooth featured in WIRED, PCMag Magazine, Hacker News, HACKADAY, MalwareBytes, Register, Bleeping Computer, Threatpost, The Record (by Recorded Future), Heise Online, and 40+ other news articles and podcasts (Podcast 1, Podcast 2) worldwide. The BrakTooth security alert has been covered by SingCERT, CSA and German Federal Office for Information Security, and Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), among others.

• August 31, 2021

  NEW: Today we released BrakTooth -- a family of 16 new security vulnerabilities (20+ CVEs) in commercial Bluetooth classic (BR/EDR) stacks that range from denial of service (DoS) via firmware crashes and deadlocks in commodity hardware to arbitrary code execution (ACE) in certain IoTs. BrakTooth affects major System-on-chip (SoC) vendors such as Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Infineon (Cypress), Silicon Labs among others. Bluetooth listings capture over 1400 products to be affected, including but not limited to Laptops and smartphones from major vendors (e.g. Dell, HP, Samsung, Microsoft etc.), Automotive Infotainment systems, Aircraft Entertainment systems, Speakers and Headphones. If you are a Bluetooth module or SoC vendor, feel free to request the proof of concept tool here: BrakTooth PoC.

• June 30, 2021

  NEW: ASSET group will release 16 new security vulnerabilities (20+ CVEs) on 31st August 2021 (currently undisclosed due to confidentiality). The vulnerabilities can be exploited to cause havoc on the devices at your desk, pocket, house, office and whatnot. Just a cursory search reveals that over 1100 product listings are affected by these vulnerabilities. Watch this space when we release all the exploits and details on 31st August 2021.

• June 01, 2021

  NEW: Several Post-doctoral and Research Engineer positions available in our group. If you are interested in any aspect of Software Security or IoT Security, then feel free to send Sudipta an email.

• May 17, 2021

  NEW: Out of many security vulnerabilities discovered by our Greyhound Fuzzer (For Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), it has received bug bounties for nine (9) of the discovered vulnerabilities (total worth >18K SGD). Join us to improve Greyhound Fuzzer and win more bounties!!!

• April 14, 2021

  NEW: Our Greyhound Fuzzer (for both Wi-Fi and BLE) is now successfully integrated into a commercial pen testing tool used by major automotive industry (names undisclosed due to confidentiality). They have subsequently used the Greyhound component to discover new Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. We are glad to see the translation, commercial success and effectiveness at industrial scale within just two years of the inception of Greyhound project at ASSET group.

• March 11, 2021

  NEW: ASSET group PhD student Matheus E. Garbelini wins a bug bounty equivalent to 6000 SGD for finding highly critical security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth protocol implementation (currently undisclosed due to confidentiality). Congratulations Matheus!!!

• December 07, 2020

  Stitcher framework designed by Yee Ching featured and discussed in Forensic Focus. Great work Yee Ching!!!!

• December 04, 2020

  We are organizing SIMLA 2021 Workshop (Security in Machine Learning and its Applications) affiliated with ACNS 2021. If you are working in the area of AI safety and security or application of AI in security, then consider submitting a paper.

• November 20, 2020

  Medtronic acknowledges our SweynTooth work by including involved ASSET group members in their outstanding research contributor page. Many thanks to CSA, Singapore for acknowledging our research effort on discovering Sweyntooth.

• October 10, 2020

  We provide a tutorial on IoT protocol vulnerabilities at Cybersecurity R&D Workshop 2020 held as part of the Singapore International Cyber Week 2020. Watch the Day 2 video (our tutorial starts at 2:26:28).

• July 14, 2020

  The details of the second wave of SweynTooth vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-10061, CVE-2020-10069, CVE-2020-13593, CVE-2020-13594, CVE-2020-13595) diclosed today. Affected vendors include (but not limited to, as we do not track all vendors) Espressif Systems, Texas Instruments, Microchip and Zephyr Project. Have fun.

• March 04, 2020

  United States Department of Homeland Security and USA Food and Drug Administration raise SweynTooth alert to make everyone aware of this critical BLE implementation vulnerability. Read the ICS Alert and the FDA Safety Communication. The respective alerts by Cyber Security Agency, Singapore and Health Sciences Authority, Singapore can be found in SingCERT Alert and HSA Safety Communication. It is a wake up call for all BLE SoC vendors and IoT product manufacturers.

• February 25, 2020

  SweynTooth and ASSET group featured in WIRED (top technology journal in the world) and 30+ news articles (and also podcasts) in English as well as in Non-English languages all over the world. I am glad to say that the work is almost single handedly pulled off by a first-year PhD student Matheus Eduardo in the ASSET group.

• February 11, 2020

  Today we release SweynTooth, a family of 12 new Bluetooth implementation vulnerabilities (more coming) affecting major system-on-chip (SoC) vendors such as NXP, Cypress, Texas Instruments, Dialog, Telink, ST Microelectronics and Microchip (the list is not exhaustive) and potentially affecting more than 480 IoT products already in market (most of them unpatched). SweynTooth reveals the terrible state of Bluetooth certification process. Read the description to know what the vulnerabilities are, how they can be exploited and why we name them SweynTooth. Feel free to reach us at sweyntooth@gmail.com for any question and clarification.

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