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#firmware

Security coverage tagged firmware.

1.

Cracking Firmware with Claude: Senior-Level Skill, Junior-Level Autonomy

blog | 2026-07-08 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #ai-security | #vulnerability-research | #claude-code

2.

Black Box Probing: a Security Analysis of Xiaomi's MJA1 Secure Chip

research | 2026-06-17 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #vulnerability-research | #hardware-security | #reverse-engineering

3.

Slowburn: Looking through AMD Platform Configuration Blobs infrastructure

research | 2026-04-15 14:30 | swarm.ptsecurity.com | original ↗ | #hardware-security | #reverse-engineering | #firmware

4.

A Nerd's Life: Weeks of Firmware Teardown to Prove We Were Right

research | 2026-03-11 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #hardware-security | #reverse-engineering | #firmware

5.

A modern tale of blinkenlights

research | 2025-12-10 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #vulnerability-research | #hardware-security | #reverse-engineering

6.

Injection for an athlete

research | 2025-11-14 14:07 | swarm.ptsecurity.com | original ↗ | #android | #mobile-security | #firmware

7.

Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware

blog | 2025-07-25 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #zero-day | #firmware | #hardware-hacking

8.

The Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi Glow-Up

blog | 2025-07-22 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #firmware | #kali-linux | #nexmon

9.

Tearing Down (Sonic)Walls: Decrypting SonicOSX Firmware

blog | 2025-02-24 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #security-research

10.

Current State of SonicWall Exposure: Firmware Decryption Unlocks New Insights

blog | 2024-12-13 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #vulnerability-research | #attack-surface | #exposure-management

11.

Sonicwall Firmware Deep Dive - SWI Firmware Decryption

research | 2024-12-02 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #security-research

12.

Finding Vulnerabilities in Firmware with Static Analysis Platform QueryX

vulnerability | 2024-11-06 15:00 | CVE-2023-39471 | theori.io | original ↗ | #firmware | #static-analysis | #taint-analysis

13.

Hacking the Nokia Fastmile

research | 2024-07-09 01:30 | projectblack.io | original ↗ | #hardware-security | #firmware | #rooting

14.

Traeger Grill D2 Wi-Fi Controller, Version 2.02.04

blog | 2024-07-02 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #firmware | #vulnerability-disclosure | #iot-security

15.

Recovering an ECU firmware using disassembler and branches

research | 2024-06-17 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #arm

16.

VRT update: Doubling down on hardware vulnerabilities

blog | 2024-04-09 12:30 | bugcrowd.com | original ↗ | #hardware-security | #firmware | #bugcrowd

17.

Leveraging Sourcetrail to a mapping tool, meet Numbat and Pyrrha

research | 2024-03-06 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #tool

18.

The great non-free-firmware transition

blog | 2024-01-22 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #firmware | #apt | #kali-linux

19.

Our Pwn2Own journey against time and randomness (part 2)

research | 2023-11-06 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #firmware | #vulnerability | #netgear

20.

Diving into Starlink's User Terminal Firmware

research | 2023-08-28 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #iot

21.

Breaking Fortinet Firmware Encryption

blog | 2023-08-02 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #security-research

22.

For Science! - Using an Unimpressive Bug in EDK II to Do Some Fun Exploitation

research | 2023-06-22 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #exploitation | #firmware | #vulnerability

23.

Arcadyan AW1000 (Telstra 5G Modem) Carrier Unlock

research | 2023-05-14 00:29 | projectblack.io | original ↗ | #hardware-security | #firmware | #5g

24.

Our Pwn2Own journey against time and randomness (part 1)

research | 2023-03-23 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #vulnerability

25.

Binbloom blooms: introducing v2

research | 2022-05-30 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #binary-analysis

26.

Reverse Engineering a VxWorks OS Based Router

research | 2020-05-06 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #router

27.

Reverse-engineering Broadcom wireless chipsets

research | 2019-04-15 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #fuzzing | #reverse-engineering | #firmware

28.

Eaton UPS 9PX 8000 SP - Multiple Vulnerabilities

blog | 2018-10-19 00:00 | bishopfox.com | original ↗ | #firmware | #csrf | #vulnerability-advisory

29.

Announcing the Trail of Bits osquery extension repository

blog | 2017-12-14 13:51 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #firmware-security | #firmware | #macos

30.

Reverse engineering of the Nitro OBD2

research | 2017-10-11 12:21 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #firmware | #hardware