Red Balloon Security’s DEF CON 33 Car Hacking Village CTF write-up: unpacking firmware, cracking a repeating-key XOR, and exploiting a buffer overflow on ARM64 to…

Introducing RASPUTIN: the human-on-the-loop automated hardware reversing platform from Red Balloon Security. Launched in May 2025, RASPUTIN revolutionizes hardware analysis and firmware extraction by combining…

Read about Red Balloon's CTF at DEF CON 32's Car Hacking Village, highlighting secure software updates.

Red Balloon Security Researchers discover and patch vulnerabilities regularly. One such recent discovery is CVE-2023-36670, which affects the Kratos NGC-IDU 9.1.0.4 system. Let’s dive into…

Red Balloon Security attended DEF CON 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada where we contributed two challenges to the Car Hacking Village Capture the Flag (CTF)…

The latest version of OFRAK 3.1.0 on PyPI includes a range of new and experimental features. Click here t our full breakdown and demo clip.

Transform Cisco output strings into engaging visuals with ChatGPT and OFRAK. Elevate your network troubleshooting skills - learn how in our latest blog.

One of the neat features we've had in mind for the OFRAK GUI, almost since it came out, is to be able to show you…

OFRAK’s FunctionReplacementModifier provides an easy-to-use API that leverages the PatchMaker to replace one or more functions in a binary. This post will walk through how…

We published OFRAK 2.2.1 to PyPI on March 8, 2023. As always, a detailed list of changes can be viewed in the OFRAK Changelog.

Recently, we improved the OFRAK Python package and dependency handling, resulting in the quicker installation of more functionality.

Recently, we improved the OFRAK Python package and dependency handling, resulting in the quicker installation of more functionality.

A bird’s eye view of firmware binaries can helps an engineer situate themselves and accelerates analysis with OFRAK's Minimap view.

It is now possible to unpack, modify, and repack a raw flash dump while utilizing all of the power of current OFRAK. Learn more.

Friendly advice from Red Balloon Security: Just pay the extra $2 Recently, we wanted to use some wired headphones with an iPhone, which sadly lacks…

We’re one of 16 teams chosen to enhance the secure operation of 5G infrastructure. Red Balloon Security has received a $682,000 award from the National…

The release of RBS’s firmware reverse engineering tool is consistent with government and industry calls for higher security standards.

The TL;DR? We used OFRAK to rewrite the badge firmware so that it auto-plays the solution for Challenge 1. Check out our video and full…

Red Balloon Security White Paper   Defending From Within: Why Embedded Systems Are the Essential to Achieving Space and Satellite Cybersecurity  Table of Contents:  …

What’s in a vulnerability: Evaluating host-based defense through recent ICS device data We analyzed data from the national vulnerability database to assess the applicability of…

Protections at the device level are not a replacement for security controls in OT systems and networks. They’re a necessary extension of them. Embedded devices…

The Ukrainian conflict amplified serious questions about satellite security in this year’s conference. But questions aren’t action, which is needed now to protect this critical…

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ISSUE #24.2 The Cybersecurity Chronicles: Red Balloon Security’s graphic depiction of real-world questions.

Multi-step analysis and calibration: How Symbiote integration works RBS’s core technology is highly effective in any embedded device environment, from cars to heavy industry, because…

A new report on ICT supply chains helps frame the ongoing threats to the essential code in embedded devices. A new report on ICT supply…

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ISSUE #17.5 The Cybersecurity Chronicles: Red Balloon Security’s graphic depiction of real-world questions.

SHMANCYBEAR: A RANSOMWARE PROOF OF CONCEPT Watch this video for a short-take of our ground-breaking research, which was covered in Bloomberg, TechCrunch, ISS Source, Smart…

The electrical grid depends on protection relays. Our analysis of the hardware and firmware in three models should raise concerns about the state of the…

Red Balloon Security’s groundbreaking research has found a means of implementing ransomware on a protection relay. The process is repeatable — and general to embedded…