Battle dolphin. My achievements with Flipper Zero inside of a month

Date: 06/03/2025

Flipper Zero, a hacker multitool created by Russian developers, has become quite famous by now. At the beginning of 2021, the project raised almost 5 million USD on Kickstarter, and the community keenly followed production-related twists and turns and subsequent difficulties with its distribution and delivery. In this article, I am going to share my Flipper-related for you to decide whether such a device is worth purchasing or not.
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Dissecting Viber. How to analyze Android apps

Date: 04/02/2025

Once, while being on a job search, I received an interesting test assignment: analyze Viber for Android, find vulnerabilities in it, and exploit them. Using this episode as an example, I will demonstrate you an efficient approach that can be used to analyze real apps and obtain results in a short time. Joking aside: if you go through all the steps described below, you have a good chance to find a 0-day vulnerability in Viber. 😉
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GPS spoofing: How to become a satellite

Date: 25/01/2025

Each of us uses satellite navigation to get anywhere outside our backyard. But what if GPS, as of a sudden, stops working and cannot be used to determine your location anymore? This article presents an efficient technique enabling you to fool GPS.
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Blindfold game. Manage your Android smartphone via ABD

Date: 02/06/2022

One day I encountered a technical issue: I had to put a phone connected to a single-board Raspberry Pi computer into the USB-tethering mode on boot. To do this, I used Android Debug Bridge (ADB), a handy debugging interface for Android devices. There are several ways to automate the work of apps on an Android smartphone using ADB, and this paper examines one of them.
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