RESEARCH

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direct commercial applications

Members of the Red Balloon Security team have led research activities funded by the U.S. Government’s DoD and DHS, including DARPA, NAVSEA, and AFRL.

Critical Architectural Vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Series Allow for Bypass of All Protected Boot Features

Red Balloon has discovered critical architectural vulnerabilities in the Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS S7-1500 series that allow for bypass of all protected boot features. 

PIADC FACILITY

U.S. Government-funded Red Balloon research to bring advanced on-device security with real-time detection to production-network building controllers.

NYANSAT​

Research for NyanSat resulted in a workshop for the Department of the Air Force and U.S. Defense Digital Service

HSBC&L​

Persistent bypass of Nautilus Hyosung's ATM security measures.

THRANGRYCAT​

Red Balloon discovered a vulnerability which allows an attacker to persistently bypass Cisco's proprietary secure boot mechanism and lock out future updates.

A MONITOR DARKLY​

Reversing and exploiting ubiquitous on-screen display controllers in modern monitors.

BADFET

Defeating modern secure boot using second-order pulsed electromagnetic fault injection.

FUNTENNA

Improvisation of an RF transmitter via GPIO to overcome air-gapped systems.

DARPA RADICS

Red Balloon provided embedded defense to protection relays, RTUs and network equipment to increase device protection, detect attacks and bring device level forensics.

LADS​

Optically isolated monitoring of embedded device cybersecurity status for the US military.

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