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Everybody be Cool, This is a Robbery!

Presenters detail vulnerability discovery and exploitation in Everybody be Cool, This is a Robbery!.

Summary

Security assessment of a commercial Hardware Security Module used by banks and cloud providers. Found 14 vulnerabilities including remotely exploitable memory corruption without authentication, enabling retrieval of all HSM secrets including cryptographic keys and administrator credentials. Exploited firmware signature verification to upload a persistent backdoor surviving updates, demonstrating Heartbleed-like heap read and type confusion during digest deserialization.

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