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July 2020

The race to limit ptrace

As our R&D team develops Rezilion, they occasionally see opportunities to improve and inform the status quo. In this post, our Team Lead, Yuri Shafet, spends some time diving into ptrace — what it is, how to use it to inject arbitrary code into a running process, how to limit ptrace execution and different techniques to dynamically detect it.