Bluetooth Landscape Exploration & Enumeration Platform (BLEEP)

Presented at DEF CON 32 (2024), Aug. 9, 2024, 10 a.m. (105 minutes).

The purpose of the tool platform is to provide both novice and experienced Bluetooth researchers a “swiss-army knife” for device exploration and enumeration. The Bluetooth Landscape Exploration & Enumeration Platform (BLEEP) is capable of discovering Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, connecting to them, and enumerating the device as well. BLEEP leverages Python3, BlueZ, and the Linux D-Bus to provide a terminal user interface for identifying and interacting with BLE implements. The I/O capabilities of the toolset include read I/O, performing writes, and capturing of notification signals. The purpose of using these low-level libraries is to maintain small granularity control over the interactivity between BLEEP and the BLE environment.

Presenters:

• Paul Wortman
  Dr. Wortman has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut with research that ranged from network analysis to cyber security risk evaluation. He now focuses on Bluetooth protocol and devices research.

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• DEF CON 24 (2016) / Picking Bluetooth Low Energy Locks from a Quarter Mile Away
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• DEF CON 32 (2024) / Learning to Hack Bluetooth Low Energy with BLE CTF Workshop