Abstract: Firmware security is critical for maintaining the integrity of embedded systems. However, detecting vulnerabilities in firmware binaries is a challenging task. This is due to the absence of ...

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The 1_to-opcode.py script processes PHP source code files to generate opcode representations. Opcode is a low-level abstraction of PHP code, offering a more granular perspective for identifying ...

Conflux says its security team has successfully patched the CREATE2 Opcode vulnerability with version 2.5 network upgrade. CREATE2 opcode, introduced in 2019 via Ethereum’s Constantinople upgrade, is ...

Ethereum L2 Starknet says devs could soon be able to build on Bitcoin through smart contracts and enable apps such as staking, borrowing and lending. Ethereum layer 2 Starknet is laying the groundwork ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

The popular Python Pickle serialization format, which is common for distributing AI models, offers ways for attackers to inject malicious code that will be executed on computers when loading models ...