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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers. Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Security researchers discovered some flaws in the Twinkly IoT lights that could be exploited display custom lighting effects and to remotely turn off them. The communications are not encrypted, however the WiFi password is sent encrypted during set up (albeit trivial to decrypt).” Pierluigi Paganini.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices into a botnet used to launch DDoS attacks. “The attackers encrypt both the main bot component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher.” Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
JULY 27, 2020
In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. According to our estimate, CoAP can reach up to 32 times (32x) amplification factor, which is roughly between the amplification power of DNS and SSDP.”.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized real-time communication that is also used for instant messaging, IoT communications, and VoIP or WebRTC signaling. Unfortunately, users that have no backups of their encryption keys will be not able to read their previous conversations. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
A user reported that its D-Link DNS-320 device was infected by malicious code. The D-Link DNS-320 model is no more available for sale, one of the members of the forum explained that the firmware of its NAS was never updated and its device was exposed to WAN through ports 8080, FTP port 21, and a range of ports for port forwarding.
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