Person
person:maddie_stone
Also: @MaddieStone, Maddie
Security researcher at Google Project Zero focused on actively exploited zero-days.
Security researcher at Google Project Zero focused on actively exploited zero-days.
“My name is Maddie Stone and I am a security researcher focused on setting zero-days that are actively exploited in the wild at Google Project Zero.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Applied Physics Laboratory | Explicit | 127 |
| outgoing | USES | Reverse engineering | Explicit | 127 |
| outgoing | USES | Assembly language | Explicit | 127 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Google Project Zero | Explicit | 127 |
| outgoing | USES | variant analysis | Explicit | 127 |
| incoming | DISCOVERED_BY | Chamois | Explicit | 127 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | proof-of-concept exploit | Explicit | 127 |
Maddie Stone MEMBER_OF Applied Physics Laboratory
Maddie worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory for her first four-and-a-half years after college.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“That’s where I ended up for the first four-and-a-half years”
Maddie Stone USES Reverse engineering
Maddie worked on reverse-engineering firmware and hardware at the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“working on reverse-engineering of firmware and hardware”
Maddie Stone USES Assembly language
Maddie studied and taught Assembly language and created projects for the course.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“I had actually listed that that was my favorite language”
“I became the teaching assistant for that course”
Chamois DISCOVERED_BY Maddie Stone
Maddie investigated and identified Chamois as a sophisticated malware family and botnet.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“one of the biggest malware families that I was not expecting”
“it became clear that it was this botnet and this family of malware”
Maddie Stone MEMBER_OF Google Project Zero
Maddie accepted the role and joined Google Project Zero.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 127 Details
“So, she took the job and joined Google Project Zero.”
proof-of-concept exploit DEVELOPED_BY Maddie Stone
Maddie partnered with Jann Horn to write a proof-of-concept demonstrating exploitation of the Android vulnerability and its usefulness in the Pegasus chain.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“I partnered up with Jann Horn to write a proof-of-concept”
Maddie Stone USES variant analysis
Maddie and her team perform variant analysis to prevent attackers from reusing variants of previously public vulnerabilities.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details
“We complete variant analysis before the attackers are able to”