ALRIGHT! I’m VERY excited to announce this research, because we’ve been holding onto it for close to a year now!
Announcing File Notification Attacks! Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on #Linux, #Android, #Windows, and #macOS
We’ve found decades-old bugs on Linux, Android, and Windows… well technically Microsoft considers what we found an ✨ undocumented feature ✨ (got Microsoft nominated for the lamest vendor response #pwnie award haha).
There’s SO much to talk about, so please expand this thread below, but you can also check it out yourself at:
There’s a #noAI logo that my sister drew there. Our work was accepted at #CCS 2026, and I’ll be presenting it this November at The Hague, Netherlands! If you’re there, we should totally meet up :D
Thanks to my AWESOME co-authors: Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Angelika Wultsch, @hweissi@infosec.exchange, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables@infosec.exchange, and @lavados@infosec.exchange 🙏, all of us from @isec_tugraz@infosec.exchange, TU Graz