flothrone/smm

UEFI BIOS security research

System Management Mode (SMM) & Intel Direct Connect Interface (DCI)

• H2HC 2017 - joint effort with Ruslan Zakirov @ttbr0 - UEFI BIOS. SMM DCI.pdf
• DCI setup guide and detailed UsbRtSmm vulnerability description https://web.archive.org/web/20190531081353/https://embedi.org/blog/uefi-bios-holes-so-much-magic-dont-come-inside/

BIOS update & recovery

• ZeroNights 2018 - joint effort with Ruslan Zakirov @ttbr0 - NUClear explotion revfinal novideo.pdf
• Detailed vulnerabilities description https://web.archive.org/web/20190531082049/https://embedi.org/blog/nuclear-explotion/
• Demo

Data-only attacks agains UEFI BIOS

• ZeroNights(X) 2021 - ZN2021X Dataonly attacks BIOS - Ermolov.pdf