Hacking Realtek using the crab: Fault injection in the claw area has the highest success rate for the attack! 👨🏽🏭⚡🦀💥⛓️💥
Security researcher Will McCardell walks us through his journey of using Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) to bypass password protection in a Wi-Fi smart plug’s firmware on Realtek RTL8720CM.
It starts from why we need it, and how to build inexpensive EMFI Lab at home, and ends up with fault injection theory and practice.
Interesting: the most vulnerable spot on the chip turned out to be… the crab’s claws! Realtek prints a tiny crab logo on their chips, and the EMFI experiments showed the highest glitch success at the crab’s claw positions. :)
Great talk, enjoy and please share it with your friends and colleagues, they may be interested as well!
More details:
The Electromagnetic Fault in Our Capacitars [Youtube]: https://lnkd.in/dg6QWYAX
