Questions tagged [virtual-machines]

Software-based simulation or emulation of a hardware platform (CPU and hardware devices). Famous examples of virtual-machines are VMware, QEMU, VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, ...

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Virtual Machine escape through page faults

The trapcc project on Github by Sergey Bratus and Julian Bangert claims that using the Turing complete capabilities of x86 MMU it is possible for a code to escape the virtual machine using a single instruction (Move, Branch if Zero, Decrement). It…
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How does one leverage VTx to disable screen capture?

I came across this cool feature while playing around with Kaspersky '15. Basically, when you launch a "Smart Money" Protected Browser (this browser is just a modified, clean install of Chrome), if your computer hardware supports VTx, you are unable…
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