Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

out of 10 in severity by the industry-standard Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and impacts all versions of EtherNet/IP Adapter Source Code Stack prior to 2.28, which was released on November 21, 2012. Also recognize that VPN is only as secure as the connected devices. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . It’s used in different devices from different vendors, the affected devices sharing the firmware are: Netgear Stora. The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Okta was breached through one of its service providers, Sitel, itself compromised via the insecure VPN gateway of a recently acquired company. In both cases, we described new UEFI firmware bootkits that managed to propagate malicious components from the deepest layers of the machine up to Windows’ user-land.

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