OffensiveCon20 - Marco Grassi and Kira - Exploring the MediaTek Baseband
Cellular communications and baseband have always been obscure and not publicly explored topics, until the very last couple of years where more public research has surfaced. The Cellular modem are an interesting remote attack surface and they lack often of modern mitigations, making them an attractive target for a "0-click" compromise over the air.
In this talk after a brief introduction of the main cellular network technologies (2G to 5G) and how to setup one, to get everyone up to speed. Then we will explore the MediaTek baseband processor and its firmware, which has been covered less in the past public research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJdAGtn8Qw