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ENISA publishes a Threat Landscape for 5G Networks

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Today’s ENISA 5G Threat landscape complements the Coordinated Risk Assessment with a more technical and more detailed view on the 5G architecture, the assets and the cyber threats for those assets. Coordination with EU-wide activities will be key to the success of secure 5G practices. Understanding threat exposure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AMD is going to patch UEFI SMM callout privilege escalation flaw

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If this level of access is acquired, an attacker could potentially manipulate the AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) to execute arbitrary code undetected by the operating system.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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New HEH botnet wipes devices potentially bricking them

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Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

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. “The modus operandi of the group behind this specific attack comes over with a criminal group that already has one has a long history, and goes back to at least 2014,” reads the Fox-IT full report to UM (in Dutch). TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Mozi Botnet is responsible for most of the IoT Traffic

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. “Our analysis of this particular sample indicates the file executes on microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) architecture. This is an extension understood by machines running reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is prevalent on many IoT devices.” ” continues the analysis.

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Czech cyber-security agency warns over Huawei, ZTE security threat

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. “The main issue is a legal and political environment of the People’s Republic of China, where (the) aforementioned companies primarily operate,” reads a statement issued by the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Aerial Direct, the O2’s largest UK partner suffered a data breach

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The company announced that is currently working to further enhance the security of its architecture with the help of “relevant experts” Customers can contact the support website to receive information about the security breach, the company is recommending them to change their passwords.