eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

For all individual computing device users, think twice before you open an email attachment, click to a link or download a new mobile app. Make sure you do everything possible to secure your mobile devices and that both the firmware and software are routinely updated. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Social Engineering Cyber Attacks Scams Engineering 174

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The most severe vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-16593 is a command-injection flaw that resides in the Sony application Photo Sharing Plus that allows users to share multimedia content from their mobile devices via Sony Smart TVs. ” reads the blog post published by Fortinet. ” reads the blog post.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

The key advantages of having IoT in healthcare include: Medical mobility: IoT helps in tracking and getting alerts when any critical change in a patient's parameter occurs, aiding in locating and providing direct assistance in real-time. Anesthesia machines, ventilators and patient monitors were among the medical devices possibly impacted.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. Typically, pet feeders are controlled by a mobile application that allows you to set, update and manage them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and expected to affect all industry verticals as well as our private lives. In this blog, we reached out to our technology partner Nexus to better understand the challenges that the industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit. At the same time, mobile apps constitute an expansion of the attack surface for every organization.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

Secure Firmware Updates Are a Necessity for Resilient IoT Deployments. As an industry that trades in the intangible, from the exchange of long-term stock assets to enabling digital payments of consumer goods, the financial services industry may not seem directly associated with something tangible like the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

With the advent of quantum computing, the security that protects the digital identities and internet communications (SSL/TLS) of our modern society is thus significantly weakened. My thanks go to my colleague Rana Gupta , APAC Regional VP, Data Protection, for his help and input into this blog post. Internet Of Things.

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Computers and Electronics Banking IoT Risk 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. The consumer watchdog examined 13 router models provided to customers by internet-service companies such as EE, Sky and Virgin Media, and found more than two-thirds had security flaws.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by a colleague from Tenable. Over the years, additional attack vectors have been discovered, including FM frequency signals from a computer to a mobile phone; thermal communication channels between air gapped computers; the exploitation of cellular frequencies; and near-field communication (NFC) channels.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After the attacks came to light, the manufacturer promptly released a firmware update for configuring verification of incoming requests. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. — PUBG MOBILE (@PUBGMOBILE) October 3, 2020. For information, please check out here: [link].

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As the name suggests, this type of attack can be carried out by tampering with physical and hardware components like network devices, servers, and any portable computing device, such as laptops, mobile phones, tablets, or smartwatches. For the purpose of this blog, we're excluding hardware supply chain attack mitigations.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This campaign was also covered by researchers at Zscaler in a blog post. We published a blog post at that time detailing the technical details of ShadowPad and its supply-chain attack campaign after its initial discovery, when it was deployed by an APT group known as Barium or APT41. Other interesting discoveries.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. I wrote a blog post about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates. Npower App Hack.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Amazon also penned a blog post that more emphatically stated their objections to the Bloomberg piece. Take, for instance, the problem right now with insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices — cheapo security cameras, Internet routers and digital video recorders — sold at places like Amazon and Walmart.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. In line with our predictions, we released two blog posts in 2022 introducing sophisticated low-level bootkits.

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