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For some reason, Citrix removed my name from the acknowledgements section of their advisory: support.citrix.com/support-h… Original credits: > Michael Tucker, Chew Keong Tan and Alex Bernier of the JPMorgan Chase XOR Team, and Maxim Suhanov Now: 1/3
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Got this fixed... My name is listed again.
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@Citrix, can you explain why?
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> Michael Tucker and Chew Keong Tan of the JPMorgan Chase XOR Team I reported CVE-2026-88778, a vulnerability that (a) allows IP spoofing and (b) allows thousands of NetScaler hosts to participate in TCP/HTTP/TLS Amplification attacks (a small spoofed TLS Client Hello... 2/3
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results in a huge reply being sent to a victim, its amplification factor starts from 40). 3/3
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I posted the slides from two talks here: dfir.ru/2026/09/09/two-confe… If you like BitLocker bypasses, here is my list: CVE-2024-43513 dubbed "bitlockpick", CVE-2025-21202 dubbed "bitlockpick 2", CVE-2026-20928 dubbed "cold boot attack without cold and boot"... 1/2
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CVE-2025-21214 – a bug from the 90’s, CVE-2025-21215 – turning the Windows boot loader into the keylogger to capture the BitLocker’s PIN. But the talk wasn't limited to those! 2/2
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In 2022, Microsoft decided to propagate Mark-of-the-Web into mounted containers. Here is how they did that and why third-party code (like WinRAR) still fails to correctly propagate the Zone.Identifier ADS. dfir.ru/2026/06/29/mark-of-t…
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Most FDE vendors/projects don't consider vectors requiring repeated physical access as a vulnerability. But there is another side to this: an HDD/SSD firmware backdoor (or a network attacker injecting arbitrary data into a disk image booted over the network) has a way... 1/3
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to inject attacker-controlled data into an encrypted volume despite code integrity controls like Secure Boot and TPM-based unlocks (the "Implementation and Implications of a Stealth Hard-Drive Backdoor" paper told us the opposite). 2/3
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In one MSRC case, Microsoft agreed to treat the data-only attack against BitLocker from the storage path as a vulnerability. 3/3
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CVE-2024-13745 in EDK II (likely, "WONTFIX"): "what you measure is not what you use". The story about firmware measuring bytes different from ones being used. It affects PCR[5], so the severity is low (nobody cares about PCR[5] by default). openwall.com/lists/oss-secur…
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NotCVE-2026-0002: if you run two NetScalers in the high availability (HA/HA-INC) deployment, no SSH host key checks are performed between them, even when you followed every advice listed here: docs.netscaler.com/en-us/net… (see: Set up secure communication between peer appliances) 1/2
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The vendor reported that this issue has been fixed in 14.1-60.52. No security advisory, CVE ID, release notes entry was published. Although this is a minor vulnerability, it is a vulnerability. 2/2
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My story of recovering cleared RDP logs from a completely unrelated EVTX file: dfir.ru/2026/01/26/windows-e… #DFIR
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My long post about wide-block & AEAD modes in full-disk encryption: it cover threat models, vulnerabilities, and edge cases. Key points: - It's common for FDE implementations to fail outside of the encryption layer. dfir.ru/2025/05/08/disk-encr… 1/4
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directory entries). - Defusing the Elephant diffuser: injecting a bunch of null bytes into the BitLocker-encrypted volume (AES-CBC with Elephant diffuser). An interesting but unexploitable bug present since Vista. 3/4
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- BestCrypt Volume Encryption breaks many XTS mode guarantees (and the vendor doesn't care). 4/4
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