Seeing Through the Invisible: Radiation Spikes Detected in Chernobyl During the Russian Invasion Show Possible Evidence of Fabrication After many months of intense research, I'm finally releasing the paper that contains full technical details and collected evidence. I presented this research at BlackHat USA 2023 a few days ago. Kim Zetter published on Wired a fascinating story about this research. She also wrote a piece on her Substack that brings additional details. I really appreciate the interest this research has generated among different people, also outside the security world. Hopefully, some day we will eventually see an official investigation into these events, which is what everyone is asking for. Paper (PDF) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sxg7Do9DVs6xquv-j8gBUgN4RUZkMG2N/view?usp=sharing SHA256 c143a35f7f6c43a80b21883dabe2e96edc1a724ac1b8c1061c1e318abd0dda38 (Preview is not possible due to the size of the file)
During Q2 2022, in view of the geopolitical situation that unfolded after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I decided that it wouldn't do any harm to kill some bugs in some of the main players within the ICS arena. I focused in those software frameworks that are running on the engineering workstations so, if compromised, attackers would be in a privileged position to manipulate controllers logic, thus enabling sophisticated attacks with a potential physical impact (i.e triton). I responsibly reported a bunch a unauthenticated remotely exploitable bugs to the corresponding vendors. In one case, after being ignored for months, I had to resort to the 'twitter, do your magic' approach and tweeted that I would be disclosing the issues if the situation persisted. It took just few hours for the vendor to get back to me. The positive side is that they found the bugs interesting and all that mess ended up in paid work. This blog post covers a similar scenario in a different vendo