10 years after its first release, LIEF 1.0.0 is officially out with a brand-new Runtime API and DWARF/PDB -> C/C++ generation! lief.re/blog/2026-07...
Romain Thomas (@rh0main)
@rh0main.bsky.social
Security engineer working on Android, reverse-engineering & obfuscation. https://www.romainthomas.fr/ - https://obfuscator.re/ - https://lief.re
I put together a little set of recipes for generating Debian images for amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x, ppc64be, and loong64 that are bootable in qemu-system - all done rootlessly, with the rootless debootstrap wrapper I shared a while ago muxup.com/2026q2/boota...
Bootable QEMU image menagerie with rootless debootstrap
Rootlessly building bootable Debian images for QEMU across several architectures
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I reverse engineered DexProtector, the security solution protecting applications like Revolut and other banking apps. From custom ELF loaders to vtable hooking, here is an insight into how these protections work and their limitations. www.romainthomas.fr/post/26-01-d...
A Glimpse Into DexProtector | Romain Thomas
This blog post provides a high-level overview of DexProtector's security features and their limitations
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New blog post on implementing patchelf-like functionalities using LIEF's Rust bindings: lief.re/blog/2025-07...
LIEF patchelf
This blog post introduces a modern LIEF-based version of patchelf
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[Blog Post] New high-level API in LIEF that allows the creation of DWARF files. Additionally, I present two plugins designed to export program information from Ghidra and BinaryNinja into a DWARF file. lief.re/blog/2025-05... (Bonus: DWARF file detailing my reverse engineering work on DroidGuard)
DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
This blog post introduces a new API in LIEF to create DWARF files
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New updates in LIEF including better support for PE modifications and ARM64EC/ARM64X binaries. Blog post: lief.re/blog/2025-02...
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And if you want to know more about the economic reality behind running high availability, actually innovative tech… signal.org/blog/signal-...
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal...
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LIEF 0.16.0 is out featuring new (extended) capabilities like Dyld Shared Cache support, Assembler/disassembler, ... lief.re/blog/2024-12...
So for my first post on Bluesky, I'm happy to share that LIEF (extended) is now providing an API to disassemble code (backed by the LLVM MC layer). This disassembler is integrated with other functionalities like dyldsc or DWARF info. You can checkout lief.re/doc/latest/e... for the details.
