Samy worm DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy says he wrote the virus that became the MySpace worm; Jack identifies it as the Samy worm.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I realize oops, I just wrote a virus.”
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Also: Samy
Hacker and security researcher interviewed about the Samy worm and later research projects.
Hacker and security researcher interviewed about the Samy worm and later research projects.
“today we’re talking with Samy Kamkar”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | Counter-Strike | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | packet sniffing | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | memory injection | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | DLL function hooking | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | aim bot | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | PunkBuster | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Fonality | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | client-side validation bypass | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | cross-site scripting | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | side-channel attack | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | Arduino | Explicit | 61 |
| outgoing | USES | traffic-data spoofing | Explicit | 61 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Samy worm | Explicit | 61 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | NFC credit-card decryption-key attack | Explicit | 61 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Evercookie | Explicit | 61 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Skyjack | Explicit | 61 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Openpath | Explicit | 61 |
Samy worm DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy says he wrote the virus that became the MySpace worm; Jack identifies it as the Samy worm.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I realize oops, I just wrote a virus.”
Samy Kamkar USES Counter-Strike
Samy played Counter-Strike and investigated its audio and process behavior to create cheats.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 61 Details
“Counter-Strike was his favorite game”
Samy Kamkar USES packet sniffing
Samy used packet sniffing while analyzing Counter-Strike information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I started learning about packet sniffing”
Samy Kamkar USES memory injection
Samy used memory injection while developing Counter-Strike cheats.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“and then memory injection”
Samy Kamkar USES DLL function hooking
Samy intercepted function calls within Counter-Strike DLLs to obtain positional information and alter game rendering.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“intercepting function calls within the DLLs of Counter-Strike itself”
Samy Kamkar USES aim bot
Samy wrote aim bots for Counter-Strike cheats.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“Just writing aim bots”
Samy Kamkar USES PunkBuster
Samy treated PunkBuster's anti-cheat software as the target of a cat-and-mouse engineering effort.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I was now playing against these engineers on PunkBuster”
Samy Kamkar MEMBER_OF Fonality
Samy helped start Fonality and later worked there.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“that’s when we started a company called Fonality”
Samy Kamkar USES client-side validation bypass
Samy bypassed MySpace's client-side photo-count validation and submitted additional photos directly to the API server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 61 Details
“he could bypass this validation and talk directly to the API server”
Samy Kamkar USES cross-site scripting
Samy found a way to execute JavaScript within a CSS tag on MySpace profiles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I found a way to execute JavaScript within a CSS tag”
NFC credit-card decryption-key attack DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy created a proof-of-concept attack against additional NFC credit cards, including a VISA Chase card.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I just created a proof-of-concept that opened up this to some additional credit cards”
Samy Kamkar USES side-channel attack
Samy demonstrated timing and power analysis using acoustic signals from a computer's processor to recover cryptographic keys.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I can do timing and power analysis”
Samy Kamkar USES Arduino
Samy investigated whether a low-cost Arduino could perform side-channel attacks.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“on a two-dollar chip or an Arduino”
Evercookie DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy created the open-source Evercookie JavaScript library.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I created this open-source JavaScript library called Evercookie”
Skyjack DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy put his drone-hijacking proof of concept into the open-source Skyjack project.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I put all of this into an open-source project called Skyjack”
Samy Kamkar USES traffic-data spoofing
Samy created a proof of concept that sent fake Android-device traffic data to Google to make a route appear congested.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“all those fake devices, would send up information to Google saying hey, I’m one of these Android devices and I’m moving zero miles per hour”
Openpath DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar
Samy says he started Openpath with friends and helped build its secure access-control business.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details
“I’ve started a company called Openpath with some friends”