Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals

[CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn

Attacking Very Weak RC4-Like Ciphers the Hard Way

Issue #281

10/25/2022

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So just realized none of the issues other than Monday's actually got sent last week. Woops. Here's a pretty cool link with a bunch of info on self hosting things.
Also it appears someone is trolling me (or with malicious intent) signing up random emails to this newsletter. Now I have to deal with that. Fun. In honor of it, today will be infosec themed. Let me know if I should do more of these "themed" issues, where all of the articles relate to a specific topic.
Anyway, here's it is.

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Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals

Published: 22 October 2022
Tags: browser, chrome, windows

Jack Halon article is on exploiting Chrome browser extensions on Windows. In this first part, Jack covers JavaScript engines and how they work.


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[CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn

Published: 15 October 2022
Tags: infosec, linux

Kyle Zeng describes a 0-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel that they found and exploited on Google's kCTF platform. Kyle goes on to describe the process of reporting the bug and submitting the exploit.


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Attacking Very Weak RC4-Like Ciphers the Hard Way

Published: 24 October 2022
Tags: encryption

Ben Herzog discusses the encryption algorithm RC4 and how it is broken in various situations. Ben also demonstrates several approaches for attacks on the algorithm.


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Link Clicks Clicks % Unique Clicks Unique Clicks %
Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals 83 43.92% 89 44.95
[CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn 59 31.22% 61 30.81
Attacking Very Weak RC4-Like Ciphers the Hard Way 47 24.87% 48 24.24

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