Implementing Practical Electrical Glitching Attacks

Explore the world of electrical glitching attacks in this 43-minute Black Hat conference talk. Delve into techniques for implementing and executing successful voltage and clock glitching attacks on various target devices. Learn about the necessary conditions for creating affordable and reliable exploits without expensive equipment or invasive methods like chip decapping. Discover how electrical glitching can bypass software protections and generate exploitable conditions non-invasively. Examine the principles of clock glitching, which involves sending out-of-cycle clock edges to skip instructions, and voltage glitching, which alters transistor propagation delay to corrupt register memory. Study and reproduce results from well-known cases, including the Xbox 360 clock glitch exploit, to gain practical insights into this powerful hacking technique.

Implementing Practical Electrical Glitching Attacks