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News Alert: Flexxon selects a Chief Technology Strategist, signals intent to expand into the US

The Last Watchdog

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, Flexxon is a global company that specialises in next generation hardware cybersecurity solutions and industrial NAND storage devices. Flexxon’s flagship cybersecurity solution, the X-PHY® Cybersecure SSD, is the world’s first AI-embedded firmware-based cybersecurity solution.

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79 Netgear router models affected by a dangerous Zero-day

Security Affairs

Nichols discovered that the vulnerability affects 758 different firmware versions that run on 79 Netgear routers. Oldest firmware versions have been released as far back as 2007. The expert discovered the vulnerability in the web server component that is implemented in vulnerable Netgear router firmware.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

CyberSecurity Insiders

Golang (also known as Go) is an open-source programming language designed by Google and first published in 2007 that makes it easier for developers to build software. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50. Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0

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Russian Sednit APT used the first UEFI rootkit of ever in attacks in the wild

Security Affairs

” The Sednit APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This solution comes pre-installed in the firmware of a large number of laptops manufactured by various OEMs, waiting to be activated by their owners.” ” continues the report.

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US and UK agencies warn of Russia-linked APT28 exploiting Cisco router flaws

Security Affairs

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The agencies recommend updating to the latest firmware and switching from SNMP to NETCONF or RESTCONF for network management.

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

The patch addresses the UPnP memory corruption vulnerability ( CVE-2007-1204 ) that enables a remote attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of a local service account.” ” Experts suggest disabling the UPnP feature if possible to prevent abuses and are uring users of running firmware up to date.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

Apart from Trojanized installers, we also observed infections involving use of a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and MBR (Master Boot Record) bootkit. QakBot (aka QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot) is a banking Trojan that was first discovered in 2007, and has been continually maintained and developed since then.

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