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The FBI warns of HiatusRAT scanning campaigns against Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs

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In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260.

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BotenaGo botnet targets millions of IoT devices using 33 exploits

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Researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that is using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo is a new botnet discovered by researchers at AT&T that leverages thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta,

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Bitdefender offers mobile security to chats on messaging apps

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From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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Experts hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issues

Security Affairs

Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. Original post: [link].

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

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Deployed with more than 30 exploits, it has the potential of targeting millions of routers and IoT devices. As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). CVE-2017-6077. CVE-2017-18368. CVE-2017-6334.

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Targeted assets: The need for cyber resilient infrastructure

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The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t limited to the consumer sector. How can we prevent a replay of the 2017 attacks against Ukraine’s power grid from happening here? Just because the computer in the lobby of corporate HQ can’t crank up the sodium hydroxide in the drinking water doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of an antivirus.

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BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub

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Alien Labs expects to see new campaigns based on BotenaGo variants targeting routers and IoT devices globally. As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 2 shows the initialization of 33 exploits.

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