Welcome to the new Project Zero Blog

While on Project Zero, we aim for our research to be leading-edge, our blog design was … not so much. We welcome readers to our shiny new blog! For the occasion, we asked members of Project Zero to dust off old blog posts that never quite saw the light of day. And while we wish we could say the techniques they cover are no longer relevant, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to protect users against zero days. Our new blog will continue to shine a light on the capabilities of attackers and the many opportunities that exist to protect against them. From 2016: Windows Exploitation Techniques: Race conditions with path lookups by James Forshaw From 2017: Thinking Outside The Box by Jann Horn

The article announces Google Project Zero’s redesigned blog and republishes older research posts on Windows exploitation race conditions and sandbox-escape style techniques, emphasizing that many zero-day exploitation paths remain relevant.[3] Project Zero reiterates its mission to expose attacker capabilities so defenders can better understand and mitigate exploitation techniques.[3] From a CyberSE.AI perspective, these still-relevant exploitation methods highlight how AI-powered agents integrated with operating systems and file systems could be coerced into dangerous actions if they naively follow untrusted file paths, race-prone lookups, or sandbox boundary assumptions. Continuous AI Red Teaming can use this class of research to design OS- and filesystem-aware adversarial tests against AI agents, ensuring they do not amplify or automate known exploitation patterns when acting on user or system instructions.