Academic Publications
Technical Conferences
- A Deep Dive Into Unconstrained Code Execution on Siemens S7 PLCs, Ali Abbasi, Tobias Scharnowski, Chaos Communication Congress (36C3), December 2019, Leipzig, Germany.
- Doors of Durin: The Veiled Gate to Siemens S7 Silicon, Ali Abbasi, Tobias Scharnowski, Thorsten Holz, Black Hat Europe, December 2019, London, United Kingdom (Presentation Available).
- Embedded Control Systems Binary Security: An Industrial Control System Protection Approach, Ali Abbasi, Black Hat Sessions, Jun 2019, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
- TRITON: A Hammer into the Head of Safety Instrumented Systems, Ali Abbasi, Jos Wetzeks, National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), March 2018, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- Analyzing & Breaking Exploit Mitigations and PRNGs on QNX For Automotive, Industrial, Medical and Other Embedded Systems, Ali Abbasi, Jos Wetzels, BlackHat Asia, March 2018, Singapore.
- Dissecting QNX - Analyzing & Breaking QNX Exploit Mitigations and Secure Random Number Generators, Ali Abbasi, Jos Wetzels, REcon Brussels (REconBRX), February 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
- Code-Reuse Attack Mitigation for COTS Programmable Logic Controller Binaries, Ali Abbasi, Stockholm International Summit on Cyber Security in SCADA and Industrial Control Systems (CS3STHLM), October 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Embedded Security from Software to Hardware, Ali Abbasi, International NCSC One Conference, National Cyber Security Centrum, April 2017, Hague, The Netherlands.
- Security Controls & Vulnerabilities in Embedded System OS, Ali Abbasi, S4xEurope, Jun 2017, Vienna, Austria.
- Ghost in the Machine: Challenges in Embedded Binary Security, Jos Wetzels, Ali Abbasi, USENIX Enigma, January 2017, Oakland, CA, USA.
- Do as I Say not as I Do: Stealth Modification of Programmable Logic Controllers I/O by Pin Control Attack, Ali Abbasi, Majid Hashemi, Chaos Communication Congress (33C3), December 2016, Hamburg, Germany.
- Wheel of Fortune: Analyzing Embedded OS Random Number Generators, Jos Wetzels, Ali Abbasi, Chaos Communication Congress (33C3), December 2016, Hamburg, Germany.
- Defeating Pin Control in Programmable Logic Controllers, Ali Abbasi, Majid Hashemi, ZeroNights, November 2016, Moscow, Russia.
- Ghost in the PLC: Designing an Undetectable Programmable Logic Controller Rootkit, Ali Abbasi, Majid Hashemi, Black Hat Europe, November 2016, London, United Kingdom (Video Available).
- APTs Way, Evading your EBNIDS, Ali Abbasi, Jos Wetzels, Black Hat Europe, October 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Video Available).
- Project IRUS: A Multifaceted Approach to Attacking and Defending ICS, Ali Abbasi, Dillon Beresford, Digital Bond’s SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4), Jan 2013, Miami, USA
- Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment and Protection from Protocol Layer to Hardware Layer, Ali Abbasi, Master thesis, Tsinghua University, Jun 2013, Beijing, China.