ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So that could be one of the things that affects that we're seeing a lot of firmware that is being reused across different devices, or are the same libraries like all over these across different projects.

IoT 52

IoT Hacking Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So that could be one of the things that affects that we're seeing a lot of firmware that is being reused across different devices, or are the same libraries like all over these across different projects.

IoT 52

IoT Hacking Internet Internet 52

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Such threats pose a risk to Ukrainian organizations and their partners, as well as foreign organizations with premises in Ukraine. In December we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanning technology. Other interesting discoveries.

Malware 130

Malware Firmware Government Phishing 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

China-based video surveillance related product offering company Hikvision has issued a security advisory saying that all those using their security cameras and NVRs must know a critical vulnerability on its devices that could allow hackers to take control of the cameras and use them as bots to launch DDoS or other related attacks.

Surveillance 96

Surveillance Firmware DDOS IoT 96