Curated security research, vulnerabilities, advisories and tools for practitioners.

#kernel

Security coverage tagged kernel.

1.

mquire: Linux memory forensics without external dependencies

blog | 2026-02-25 12:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #open-source | #incident-response | #linux

2.

BYOVD to the next level (part 2) — rootkit like it's 2025

research | 2025-10-08 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #windows | #post-exploitation | #kernel

3.

Introducing a new section on snapshot fuzzing for kernel-level testing in the Testing Handbook

blog | 2025-04-09 13:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #fuzzing | #kernel | #trail-of-bits

4.

OtterRoot: Netfilter universal root 1-day

vulnerability | 2024-11-25 00:00 | CVE-2024-26809 | osec.io | original ↗ | #linux | #privilege-escalation | #kernel

5.

Reversing Windows Container, episode II: Silo to Server Silo

research | 2024-03-25 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #windows | #reverse-engineering | #virtualization

6.

Why Windows can’t follow WSL symlinks

blog | 2024-02-12 14:30 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #linux | #windows | #reverse-engineering

7.

Unveiling eBPF: Revolutionizing Security and Observability

blog | 2023-09-27 17:00 | wiz.io | original ↗ | #cloud | #cloud-security | #linux

8.

Pitfalls of relying on eBPF for security monitoring (and some solutions)

blog | 2023-09-25 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #linux | #kernel | #ebpf

9.

Use our suite of eBPF libraries

blog | 2023-08-09 10:45 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #open-source | #linux | #kernel

10.

Introducing Windows Notification Facility’s (WNF) Code Integrity

blog | 2023-05-15 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #windows | #reverse-engineering | #offensive-security

11.

Defeating eBPF Uprobe Monitoring

research | 2022-08-29 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #cloud | #linux | #exploitation

12.

Digging into Linux namespaces - part 2

research | 2021-11-17 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #linux | #containers | #kernel

13.

Digging into Linux namespaces - part 1

research | 2021-11-15 23:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #linux | #containers | #kernel

14.

All your tracing are belong to BPF

blog | 2021-11-09 16:26 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #linux | #kernel | #tutorial

15.

Guided tour inside WinDefender’s network inspection driver

research | 2021-07-12 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #microsoft | #reverse-engineering | #kernel

16.

CVE-2020-0069: Autopsy of the Most Stable MediaTek Rootkit

vulnerability | 2020-03-23 23:00 | CVE-2020-0069 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #privilege-escalation | #android | #kernel

17.

TSC Frequency For All: Better Profiling and Benchmarking

blog | 2019-10-03 10:58 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #linux | #x86 | #kernel

18.

Kali Linux 2019.3 Release (Cloudflare, Kali-status, metapackages, Helper-Scripts & LXD)

blog | 2019-09-02 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #kali-linux | #release-notes | #infrastructure

19.

CVE-2018-6924: FreeBSD ELF Header Parsing Kernel Memory Disclosure

advisory | 2019-07-14 22:00 | CVE-2018-6924 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #exploitation | #vulnerability | #kernel

20.

LLDBagility: practical macOS kernel debugging

research | 2019-06-17 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #macos | #virtualbox | #kernel

21.

Kali Linux 2019.2 Release

blog | 2019-05-21 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #android | #kali-linux | #release-notes

22.

An overview of macOS kernel debugging

research | 2019-05-06 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #reverse-engineering | #macos | #kernel

23.

Kali Linux 2019.1 Release

blog | 2019-02-18 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #exploitation | #kali-linux | #release-notes

24.

How to write a rootkit without really trying

blog | 2019-01-17 12:50 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #open-source | #fuzzing | #linux

25.

Kali Linux for the Gemini PDA

blog | 2018-12-04 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #kali-linux | #linux-distribution | #arm

26.

Kali Linux 2018.4 Release

blog | 2018-10-29 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #kali-linux | #release-notes | #raspberry-pi

27.

Playing with the Windows Notification Facility (WNF)

research | 2018-10-24 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #windows | #reverse-engineering | #kernel

28.

Kali Linux 2018.3 Release

blog | 2018-08-21 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #osint | #ios | #kali-linux

29.

Kali Linux 2018.2 Release

blog | 2018-04-30 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #kali-linux | #release-notes | #kernel

30.

Kali Linux 2018.1 Release

blog | 2018-02-06 00:00 | kali.org | original ↗ | #kali-linux | #release-notes | #package-management