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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
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Discover critical architectural vulnerabilities in the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 series PLCs that could allow attackers to bypass all protected boot features. Red Balloon’s research

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