Pedro MEMBER_OF Team Flashback
Pedro and Radek are known together as Team Flashback.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Together, they’re known as Team Flashback.”
Episode
05 January 2021 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode covers the Zero Day Initiative, the history and operation of Pwn2Own, exploit research demonstrated at the contest, and the 2020 Masters of Pwn winners Team Flashback.
Topics: Zero-day vulnerability acquisition and disclosure, Bug-bounty programs and vulnerability brokerage, Pwn2Own exploit competition and Masters of Pwn scoring, Browser exploitation, Use-after-free vulnerabilities, Browser sandbox escapes, Undocumented operating-system features, Exploit chains, Virtualization and hypervisor escapes, Kernel and VGA-driver exploitation, Baseband exploitation, Remote code execution, Crafted-packet router exploitation, Persistent backdoors surviving factory reset, Ethics and markets for offensive zero-day exploits, Industrial control systems and SCADA security
Links published on the Darknet Diaries episode page. Not LLM output.
Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
Pedro MEMBER_OF Team Flashback
Pedro and Radek are known together as Team Flashback.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Together, they’re known as Team Flashback.”
Radek MEMBER_OF Team Flashback
Radek and Pedro are known together as Team Flashback.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Together, they’re known as Team Flashback.”
Team Flashback OTHER Master of Pwn
Team Flashback won the Masters of Pwn in November 2020.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“In the November 2020 Pwn2Own, they won Masters of Pwn.”
Zero Day Initiative OPERATED_BY Trend Micro
ZDI is run by Trend Micro.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“ZDI is ran by Trend Micro”
Zero Day Initiative ASSOCIATED_WITH TippingPoint Intrusion Detection System
ZDI was created to enrich the vulnerabilities detectable by Trend Micro’s TippingPoint intrusion detection system.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“ZDI was created in order to enrich the vulnerabilities that their intrusion detection system can detect.”
Zero Day Initiative ASSOCIATED_WITH zero-day vulnerability
ZDI buys zero-day vulnerabilities from researchers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Specifically, they buy zero-day vulnerabilities.”
Pwn2Own PART_OF CanSecWest
Pwn2Own has been held annually at CanSecWest since 2007.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Since 2007, the Pwn2Own contest has been going on every year at CanSecWest.”
use-after-free AFFECTS Google Chrome
Vupen’s Chrome exploit chain used a use-after-free in Google’s renderer process.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Brian Gorenc EP 82 Details
“they’re exploiting a use-after-free in Google’s renderer process.”
zero-day vulnerability AFFECTS QuickTime
Dino Dai Zovi reportedly used a bug in QuickTime to take over the MacBook Air during the early contest.
Uncertain Confidence 82% · Dustin Childs EP 82 Details
“I believe he used a bug in QuickTime to take over the system.”
Vupen OTHER Google Chrome
Vupen demonstrated an exploit chain against Google Chrome at Pwn2Own in 2014.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Brian Gorenc EP 82 Details
“Vupen was – at the contest was targeting Google Chrome.”
Vupen ASSOCIATED_WITH Zerodium
Jack says Vupen later morphed into Zerodium, which continued acquiring zero-day exploits.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“that team has now morphed into what’s called Zerodium”
Project Raven USES Karma
Project Raven operatives used the Karma exploit to access information on a target’s iPhone without requiring a click.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“One of the hacking tools they used is called Karma.”
“This allowed Project Raven operatives to access information on a target’s iPhone without the target having to click or do anything.”
Project Raven ASSOCIATED_WITH United Arab Emirates
Project Raven was described as a hacking group contracted by the UAE to hack its adversaries; the link is presented as a contractual association rather than direct operational control.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“This was basically a hacking group who was contracted by the UAE to hack into its adversaries.”
Junghoon Lee ASSOCIATED_WITH Google Chrome
Forbes reportedly described Junghoon Lee, also known as Lokihardt, as able to hack Google Chrome.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Lee, better known as his online alias Lokihardt is said to be able to hack into any computer, smart phone, program, or browser from Apple iPhone to Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Safari.”
Junghoon Lee ASSOCIATED_WITH Microsoft Edge
Forbes reportedly described Junghoon Lee, also known as Lokihardt, as able to hack Microsoft Edge.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Lokihardt is said to be able to hack into any computer, smart phone, program, or browser from Apple iPhone to Microsoft Edge”
Junghoon Lee ASSOCIATED_WITH Safari
Forbes reportedly described Junghoon Lee, also known as Lokihardt, as able to hack Safari.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Google Chrome, or Safari.””
Richard Zhu MEMBER_OF Fluoroacetate
Richard Zhu is one of the two members of Team Fluoroacetate.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“It’s made up of two people, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama.”
Amat Cama MEMBER_OF Fluoroacetate
Amat Cama is one of the two members of Team Fluoroacetate.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“It’s made up of two people, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama.”
Fluoroacetate OTHER Tesla Model 3
Team Fluoroacetate exploited a Tesla Model 3’s browser session and won a Tesla Model 3 at Pwn2Own.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“they were able to exploit that session and take over the Tesla.”
“That was enough for them to win a Tesla Model 3.”
Fluoroacetate OTHER baseband
Amat Cama’s specialty within Team Fluoroacetate was baseband exploitation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brian Gorenc EP 82 Details
“Amat’s specialty was actually – was baseband exploitation.”
Fluoroacetate OTHER Samsung Galaxy
The Samsung Galaxy was exploited via baseband in Pwn2Own for three consecutive years from 2017 to 2019, in connection with Amat’s research.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Brian Gorenc EP 82 Details
“From 2017 to 2019, the Samsung Galaxy was part of the contest and it was actually exploited via baseband three years in a row.”
Team Flashback OTHER remote code execution
Team Flashback brought working zero-day exploits capable of remote code execution to Pwn2Own events.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 82 Details
“Together, Team Flashback has brought eleven working zero-day exploits to three different Pwn2Own events”
Team Flashback ASSOCIATED_WITH persistent backdoor
Radek said two of Team Flashback’s router exploits delivered persistent backdoors that survived a factory reset; this is reported as the team’s account.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Radek EP 82 Details
“two of our exploits were delivering a persistent back door. Once you exploit it, the user is not even aware of the exploit being planted”
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