Amichai Shulman is the CTO and Co-founder at AirEye. Amichai carries more than 25 years of cyber security experience in military, government and commercial environments. He co-founded Imperva and served as CTO for the company for more than 15 years, driving innovation and thought leadership.
While it is easy to use the vulnerability to simply disable the Wi-Fi capabilities of an attacked machine, the nature of format string vulnerabilities is that when carefully crafted they can be used to write arbitrary code into random, or chosen, parts of a machine’s memory – and even eventually inject and execute code. Since the device is on the corporate network, this code can eventually be used for lateral movement.
3 December 2021