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@vu5ec
Security Research Group @VUamsterdam. - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/vusec - Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/vusec.… - Mastodon: infosec.exchange/@vusec
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Joined April 2016
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  • @vu5ec
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    @vu5ec
    Sep 29
    Disclosing Branch Target Reuse (BTR): speculative execute-after-free in JIT engines. Code gets freed, but branch predictions survive. BTR exploits this mismatch to mount practical Spectre-v2 attacks (cBPF /etc/shadow exploit demo below). Details at: vusec.net/projects/btr
    GIF
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  • @vu5ec
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    @vu5ec
    May 12, 2025
    Spectre v2 is back again! Disclosing "Training Solo": 3 new self-training attack classes, 2 end-to-end exploits, and 2 new hardware issues that break domain isolation even when implemented perfectly. Joint work by @SanWieb @c_giuffrida: vusec.net/projects/train…
  • @vu5ec
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    @vu5ec
    Sep 3, 2024
    Congratulations to @vustudsec for becoming the first the first Student CyberSecurity Association registered in the Netherlands! And happy to see so many members doing well in our Computer Security Master!
    Dear Members, We are thrilled to announce that StudSec has officially become the first-ever Student...
    From linkedin.com
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  • @vu5ec
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    @vu5ec
    May 22, 2024
    Today at #SP24, @fcgorter presents Sticky Tags. We uncover performance/security issues in prior ARM MTE schemes based on random tagging (+ a new speculative oracle) and show how to address them with a new deterministic MTE scheme for spatial memory safety: download.vusec.net/papers/stickyt…
  • @vu5ec
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    @vu5ec
    May 17, 2024
    Our SafeFetch paper @USENIXSecurity is online! Thanks to an optimized in-kernel cache, SafeFetch provides comprehensive protection against double-fetch bugs at a fraction of the cost of prior solutions. Joint work by @victor_duta, Mitchel, @c_giuffrida: download.vusec.net/papers/safefet…