Reversing and Attacking Google Nearby

Feb 2, 2019

In 2019 in a paper titled Nearby Threats: Reversing, Analyzing, and Attacking Google’s ‘Nearby Connections’ on Android we uncovered issues on Nearby Connections, an proprietary Google API included in all Android devices. The API is used to provide proximity-based services using a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless technologies.

We developed an open-sourced REarby, a toolkit to automate reverse engineering and attacking Nearby Connections.

NDSS 2019 Paper Presentation

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Daniele Antonioli
Daniele Antonioli
Assistant Professor

Research in cyber-physical and wireless system security

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Publications

D. Antonioli, N. O. Tippenhauer, K. Rasmussen (2019). Nearby Threats: Reversing, Analyzing, and Attacking Google’s ‘Nearby Connections’ on Android. NDSS.

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