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zerdnem / research.md
Created January 22, 2025 08:30 — forked from hackermondev/research.md
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old high school junior. in my free time, i hack billion dollar companies and build cool stuff.

3 months ago, I discovered a unique 0-click deanonymization attack that allows an attacker to grab the location of any target within a 250 mile radius. With a vulnerable app installed on a target's phone (or as a background application on their laptop), an attacker can send a malicious payload and deanonymize you within seconds--and you wouldn't even know.

I'm publishing this writeup and research as a warning, especially for journalists, activists, and hackers, about this type of undetectable attack. Hundreds of applications are vulnerable, including some of the most popular apps in the world: Signal, Discord, Twitter/X, and others. Here's how it works:

Cloudflare

By the numbers, Cloudflare is easily the most popular CDN on the market. It beats out competitors such as Sucuri, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, and Fastly. In 2019, a major Cloudflare outage k

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zerdnem / README.md
Created February 8, 2020 13:51 — forked from reubano/README.md
Terms of use and privacy policy evaluation
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zerdnem / curltest.c
Created May 28, 2019 11:22 — forked from aaronhurt/curltest.c
example code using libcurl and json-c to post and parse a return from http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
/**
* example C code using libcurl and json-c
* to post and return a payload using
* http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
*
* Requirements:
*
* json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c
* libcurl - http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c
*