VXCON Village

VXCON Village

VXCON (Variety eXploitation) Village is held by VXRL Hong Kong. VXRL is founded by a group of passionate security researchers and white-hat hackers in Hong Kong. Our team has deep expertise in software and hardware security, and we have hands-on domain knowledge in several vertical industries. Our mission is to make the cyberspace a safe place for the future. Our village this time will cover not only chip-off technique but alos some hardware like SMD badge soldering skill. It is an in-depth hand-on playground.

DC27 Las Vegas - VXCON Village

Date: 8-11 August, 2019

Location: Paris, Ballys and Planet Hollywood Hotel, Las Vegas, US

Chip-off Village

Given a usb thumbdrive, using the T862++ IR Station to chipoff the chip, then use the adapters (PCBA control board bga153/169) to access the data and solve the challenges

Fine-tune the position of IR light and the protection shield

Turn ON the IR machine and set below 300 °C

Put the iron plate with the USB board under the light

Use the soldering iron and the tweezers to move (push left and right) the chip once you see the smoke

Use the soldering iron and the dispenser to clean the chip

Turn Off the machine

Put the chip into the USB eMMC reader in correct direction

Retrieve the date from the chip for analysis

Use the common tools: Hex Editor, Python and APKTool to analyze the image file.

BadUSB Workshop

Writing payloads for teensy to develop a badusb to do exploitation

Please find the instruction here

Lockpicking with 3D Printer

Using autodesk to draw the TSA lock card to duplicate the card and unlock the TSA lock

Prerequisites:

Register an account of using AutoDesk fusion

Bring your own laptop

Prepare a USB storage in Fat32 format to copy files from your laptop to printer

if you have any measurement tool, please bring it along

Video Instruction

VXCON Badges / Soldering practice

Participants can practise soldering, sticking the LED on the badges and other small gadgets

- VXCON badge can be purchased at USD $20 by cash. (Original Price $25)
- Traffic Light pack can be purchased at USD $40 by cash.

Schedule

8 August - Setup

9 August - Morning Session 10:30 - 12:30 / Afternoon Session 14:30 - 17:00

10 August - Morning Session 10:30 - 12:30 / Afternoon Session 14:30 - 17:00

Call For Paper and Volunteers: Pls send email to captain[at]vxrl.org