Damien Cauquil (R&D Engineer at Quarkslab)
Damien is a security researcher who joined Quarkslab in 202 . He discovered how wireless protocols can be fun to hack and created BtleJuice, one of the first Bluetooth Low Energy MitM framework (now almost dead) and BtleJack, a BLE swiss-army knife released in 2018. He has been working with Romain Cayre on a new wireless hacking framework called WHAD for more than two years, that has been released at DEF CON 32 in 2024.
Damien presented at various security conferences including DEF CON, Hack In Paris, Chaos Communication Camp, Chaos Communication Congress, BruCon, Hack.lu, SSTIC, and a dozen times at leHACK (formerly la Nuit du Hack), one of the oldest French hacking conference.
Sessions
This workshop will introduce you to our WHAD framework (WHAD stands for Wireless HAcking Devices or Wireless HAcking for Dummies, see https://whad.io) and its numerous tools designed to have fun with wireless devices in the wild, with a focus on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Learn how to easily discover BLE devices, connect to them and analyze how they behave and expose information, how to clone a device and trick a smartphone to connect to it, how to interact with a device in many unexpected ways, and more importantly learn how this framework can help you build pretty efficient exploits in Python to complete the final challenge of this workshop !
We would be more than happy to get you started with Bluetooth Low Energy hacking with WHAD, and hope you'll enjoy the ride and dig into what this framework is capable of regarding other wireless protocols as well !