This is not related to my projects, but I'd like to raise awareness since, in my opinion, this is a bit fucked up and a real shame for the reverse engineering community.
As some might know (or not), Umer (halal-beef) primarily, and others spent months reversing an Exynos iROM exploit that was originally discovered by a friend of mine (hello AA) (but was never made public).
I knew about the PoC because of the latter and even had coverage about it, so I can definitely speak about the research efforts made by Umer for months.
He actually posted about it on his (now gone) Telegram channel, and you could tell he knew what he was doing, nothing was fake (a few bits of it, here).
Then this guy somehow got his hands on halal's PoC (someone leaked it to him), ran it through AI, "improved" it without actually knowing how it works, and started teasing it like it was his own achievement.
Naturally, he got called out for stealing stuff and not giving proper credit, and all he did was delete the chat where the evidence had been posted.
Not satisfied with that, he simply cried in DMs (instead of publicly addressing everyone who confronted him) to halal and even threatened to leak the thing.
You can see a more detailed story / proof here: https://t.me/uechats/3
The bug itself (CVE-2024-56426) is public, already used in tools like Chimera and Sigmakey, and now he's threatening to report it to big companies, even though it's already been addressed.
Crecker, do better ;)
UPDATE: Original PoC is now public: https://github.com/halal-beef/houston-pub
