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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

Kilmer said when Spur first started looking into Faceless, they noticed almost every Internet address that Faceless advertised for rent also showed up in the IoT search engine Shodan.io Those with IoT zero-days could expect payment if their exploit involved at least 5,000 systems that could be identified through Shodan.

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Inside Mirai the infamous IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis

Elie

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. At its peak, Mirai enslaved over 600,000 vulnerable IoT devices, according to our measurements. self-propagating worm.

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Over 19,000 Orange Livebox ADSL modems leak WiFi credentials

Security Affairs

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a flaw in Orange LiveBox ADSL modems to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext. The flaw tracked as CVE-2018-20377 is known at least since 2012 when Rick Murray described it in a blog post. . . Mursch also reported that many exposed devices use default credentials (i.e.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel Investments. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners.

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

Troy Hunt

Then there was CloudPets leaking kids voices because the "smart" teddy bears that recorded them (yep, that's right) then stored those recordings in a publicly facing database with no password. Certainly not the current gen XS, does that resolution put it back in about the iPhone 5 era from 2012? mSpy leaked data.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. We suggest to harden and update your SSH server configuring authentication with authorized keys and disabling passwords. Technical Analysis.

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Top Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2022

eSecurity Planet

GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more. Venture Cybereason 2012 Boston, MA 1,100 $713.6 GitGuardian. Strata Identity. JupiterOne. Series C Bitglass 2013 Campbell, CA 170 $150.1 Acquired by JFrog.