Alex Ionescu
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Alex Ionescu
@ionescu.bsky.social
Windows Internals Author, Developer, Reverse Engineer, Security Researcher, Speaker, Trainer, and most recently Nation State Hacker.
Core OS Platform Developer at Apple, Hyper-V Vendor at Microsoft, Chief Architect at CrowdStrike and now Director at CSE.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Now I kind of want to write an mIRC plugin
November 22, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I think it’s « Mahalo, товарищ »
November 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Brought back memories 🥲
November 9, 2024 at 4:04 PM
LSASS now runs as PPL by default, and that DLL doesn’t have the appropriate signature. Unless you’re relying on Bonjour for AD auth you’re probably fine. Microsoft launched LSA PPL signing for 3rd parties back in Windows 8.1 in 2013: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
It’s only been 11 years ;-)
LSA and UEFI file signing - Windows drivers
Local Security Authority (LSA) plug-in and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware signing.
learn.microsoft.com
November 9, 2024 at 11:40 AM
I own tools.zip and am trying to figure out what I should serve
May 16, 2023 at 7:23 AM
Normally I would use a kernel debugger to look at the wait block and see what object it’s attached to. Is there an ETW event that might log that?
May 10, 2023 at 10:31 AM
User Mode — into some sort of Ring 3 (non-kernel) service
May 9, 2023 at 8:04 PM
I’m guessing this is an EDR or similar product that’s calling into UM for a response…
May 9, 2023 at 12:29 AM