Fromage-Gate: Old-School Hacking Tactics vs. French Supermarkets

Who You See:
Daniel Cuthbert
-LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-cuthbert0x/
-X: ⁠https://x.com/dcuthbert⁠

The Grugq
-LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/grugq/⁠
-X: ⁠https://x.com/thegrugq⁠

Show Notes:
Grain of rice
-Shorthand in the community for sensational, unproven hardware backdoor claims.
 
Referenced Talks:
Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle
-Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek
-Black Hat USA 2015
⁠https://youtu.be/MAcHkASmXEc?si=3X3jnzCBIS1155i1

MIDImorphosis – Exploiting a Windows 11 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability with a Teensy USB Device
-Andy Davis
-Black Hat Europe 2026 
⁠-https://blackhat.com/europe/briefings/schedule/#midimorphosis—exploiting-a-windows-11-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-with-a-teensy-usb-device-56526
 
Phantom Bytes: A Complete Taxonomy of Linux Memory Attacks Against Modern EDR
-Yuan Zhang
-Black Hat Europe 2026
-https://blackhat.com/europe/briefings/schedule/#phantom-bytes-a-complete-taxonomy-of-linux-memory-attacks-against-modern-edr-56754
 
Defeating Forensic Analysis on Unix
-Thaddeus Grugq
-Phrack Magazine 2002
⁠-https://phrack.org/issues/59/defeating-forensic-analysis-on-unix#article
 
Remote Exec
-Thaddeus Grugq
-Phrack Magazine 2004
⁠-https://phrack.org/issues/62/remote-exec#article
 
Vivisection of an Exploit Development Process: What To Do When It’s Not Easy
-David Aitel
-Black Hat Europe 2023
⁠-https://blackhat.com/archive/europe/2003/bh-europe-03-speakers.html#David%20Aitel
 
Professional Source Code Auditing
-Mark Dowd, Halvar Flake, Nishad Herath, Neel Mehta, and Chris Spencer
-Black Hat USA 2002
-⁠https://youtu.be/YceCSBLlelQ?si=C8qhb2M9GcTA-AGt
 
Why We are Not Building a Defendable Internet
-Halvar Flake
-Black Hat Asia 2017 Keynote
⁠-https://youtu.be/PLJJY5UFtqY?si=nesqa__4D0KQJAzl

00:00 Intro
00:14 Fromage-Gate with The Grugq
01:28 Industry Lag Since 1990
04:42 Cheesecake Factory- Early Script Kiddie Era
07:03 Curiosity vs Monetization
12:36 Reflections on the Early Hacking Community
16:01 LLMs Lowering the Barrier, Misuse- Ty & Calif, Anthropic
18:27 Absorptive Capacity- What Can be Weaponized
21:44 Notable Black Hat EU Research
24:34 Historical Research Worth Revisiting
39:54 Closing and Call to Action

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