Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The bridge discovers the hacker-controlled bulb with updated firmware, and the user adds it back onto their network. The company released firmware p atches for the device in January. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Smart Light Bulbs, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. SecurityAffairs – hacking, printers).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

What about hacking Radio Blasting Systems? A quick search on the internet returned many products related to the topic. Which means, we can easily bruteforce and thus exhaust the space between them with the main WHID Elite Firmware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the experts, Tenda routers running a firmware version between AC9 to AC18 are vulnerable to the attack. “We recommend that Tenda router users check their firmware and make necessary update.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in MoFi Network routers, including critical flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack a device. “Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MoFi4500 router, an OpenWRT based wireless router that provides Internet access via LTE. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The hardware of the terminals is equipped with Shenzen technology, while the firmware is based on BusyBox Linux Debian. . Automatic updates are available via Wi-Fi and can be installed by setting IoT radio devices back to factory settings and downloading the latest firmware version. . SecurityAffairs – IoT radio devices, hacking). .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack. ” Experts also discovered that it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the device through a firmware update. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 CVE-2020-9054 Multiple ZyXEL network-attached storage (NAS) devices running firmware version 5.2, Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0 A2pvI042j1.d26m

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Some of the devices support multiple 10-gigabit uplinks and provide Internet connectivity to up to 1024 ONTs (clients). The backdoor accounts in the firmware of 29 FTTH Optical Line Termination (OLT) devices from popular vendor C-Data. The most severe issue is the presence of Telnet backdoor accounts hardcoded in the firmware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security experts Adam Nichols from GRIMM and d4rkn3ss from the Vietnamese internet service provider VNPT have independently reported a severe unpatched security vulnerability that affects 79 Netgear router models. Nichols discovered that the vulnerability affects 758 different firmware versions that run on 79 Netgear routers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A Russian security researcher accidentally discovered API and firmware issues that allowed her to take over all Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders. The Russian security researcher Anna Prosvetova, from Saint Petersburg, has accidentally discovered API and firmware issues that allowed her to take over all Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Netlab shared its findings with LILIN on January 19, 2020, and the vendor addressed the issues with the release of the firmware update (version 2.0b60_20200207). The new firmware released by the vendors validated the hostname passed as input to prevent command execution. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LILIN). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

The Tails OS allows to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship by using the Tor Network, it leaves no trace on the computer users are using and uses the state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt files, emails and instant messaging. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JULY 28, 2020

The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates. SecurityAffairs – hacking, QSnatch).

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Some of the issues also affected third-party components, including OpenSSL, Intel firmware, Bouncy Castle, Java SE, Apache software, and others. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. This leaves a security flaw that the hackers can tamper the update configuration file and replace the update program after hacking the VPN server.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

“ Experts found hardcoded credentials in the firmware that are used to connect to a private broker through the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol for exchanging messages with remote IoT boards and sensors. If Twinkly lights are present in the network they will be instructed to display the message ‘Hack the Planet!’

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

The list includes: IP addresses of Pulse Secure VPN servers Pulse Secure VPN server firmware version SSH keys for each server A list of all local users and their password hashes Admin account details Last VPN logins (including usernames and cleartext passwords) VPN session cookies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pulse VPN).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

Furthermore, even if software patches were issued, the likelihood of most users updating their device firmware is low. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – iLnkP2P flaws, IoT).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The vulnerability lies within the design and implementation of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) credentials inside the Guardzilla Security Camera firmware.” It has a CVSSv3 base score of 8.6 , since once the password is known, any unauthenticated user can collect the data from any affected system over the internet.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Qihoo 360 NetLab have uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign that leverages the GhostDNS malware. Shell DNSChanger is written in the Shell programming language and combines 25 Shell scripts that allow the malware to carry out brute-force attacks on routers or firmware packages from 21 different manufacturers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2019

Firmware updates that address this vulnerability are not currently available. After the disclosure of proof-of-exploit code for security flaws in Cisco RV320 and RV325 routers, hackers started scanning the Internet for vulnerable devices in an attempt to take compromise them. Pierluigi Paganini. ( – Cisco Cisco RV325, hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquiti installs exposed online. Ubiquiti is aware of the issue and is currently working on a firmware update that will address it anyway it is trying to downplay it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

“Have as few internet facing devices as possible,” NERC urged in its report.” ” The flaw allowed the attackers to trigger a DoS condition in the internet-facing firewalls that were all perimeter devices used to implement the outer security layer. SecurityAffairs – power utility, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Recently QNAP published a security advisory urging its customers to update the firmware and apps installed on their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to prevent AgeLocker ransomware infections. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, QNAP).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Since recent firmware updates, the ClamAV Antivirus fails to update due to 700+ clamav.net entries in /etc/hosts, all set to 0.0.0.0 “Exposing your NAS on the internet (allowing remote access) is always a high risk thing to do (at least without a properly deployed remote access VPN and/or 2FA on all existing user accounts)!”

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Experts at Tenable discovered 15 vulnerabilities in eight wireless presentation systems, including flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack devices. Tenable started reporting the vulnerabilities to vendors in January, but at the time of the public disclosure, only Extron and Barco have released firmware updates. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquity installs exposed online. Ubiquity is aware of the issue and is currently working on a firmware update that will address it anyway it is trying to downplay it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 “One of the screenshots seems to consist of LG Electronics official firmware or software update releases that assist their hardware products to work more efficiently.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues Cyble.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The attackers’ research vector is now shifting from software vulnerabilities to those located at the hardware and firmware level. Thirteen exchanges were hacked in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018, amounting to a total loss of $877 million. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MAY 19, 2020

“There is no evidence to support any other firmware versions are vulnerable at this point in time and these findings have been shared with Symantec.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

After the disclosure of proof-of-exploit code for security flaws in Cisco RV320 and RV325 routers, hackers started scanning the Internet for vulnerable devices in an attempt to take compromise them. Firmware updates that address this vulnerability are not currently available. SecurityAffairs – Cisco Cisco RV320, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Rockwell has released firmware updates that address the vulnerability for the affected controllers. Below the recommendations published by Rockwell Automation to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability: Update to the latest available firmware revision that addresses the associated risk. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

. “Once the attacker gains full access to the device through the botnet, the firmware level can be changed and additional malware can be planted on the device.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it).

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