Hardware Podcasts

068 - The Monkey Button

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 7 Apr 2024 · 1h 08m

What this episode covers

Lori Wired, a reverse engineer specializing in mobile malware and a YouTube educator, discusses the challenges and techniques of analyzing Android and iOS applications. She explains the shift in malware tactics toward native code and packers to evade static analysis, highlighting tools like Ghidra and Frida for dynamic instrumentation. The conversation also covers her community engagement through Twitter Spaces and malware trivia, as well as her perspective on the mobile threat landscape and the Xcode Ghost supply chain attack.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Kasperski
Products
Space Cadet Pinball, Xcode Ghost
Tools
Ghidra, IDA, Frida, Medusa, UPX, RetroBar
Also
Operation Triangulation

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