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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. As with the rest of the IoT landscape, there's a lot of scope for improvement here and also just like the other IoT posts, it gets very complex for normal people very quickly.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. Today, the potential for so-called DNS reflective attacks has become pervasive. Beyond DDoS.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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Microsoft releases open-source tool for checking MikroTik Routers compromise

Security Affairs

We published this tool to help customers ensure these IoT devices are not susceptible to these attacks.” TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities.

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TrickBot operators employ Linux variants in attacks after recent takedown

Security Affairs

Microsoft announced to have taken down 62 of the original 69 TrickBot C&C servers, seven servers that could not be brought down last week were Internet of Things (IoT) devices. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features.

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FBI, CISA alert warns of imminent ransomware attacks on healthcare sector

Security Affairs

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications.

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Answering Log4Shell-related questions

SecureList

was released in 2016. Is IoT vulnerable to Log4j? This will depend on the vendor/software running on these IoT devices. The exploitation attempt will use different types of services like LDAP, RMI, DNS etc. The Log4Shell vulnerability webinar FAQ. Is it safe to use version 1.x? The last version 1.2.17

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