The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

My primer on the going forward privacy and security implications of IoT — What Everyone Should Know About the Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things — won second place in the contest’s IoT Security category. So keep reading and sharing. And thanks for your support.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. The drivers of IoT-centric commerce appear to be unstoppable. Count on the wide deployment of IoT systems to continue at an accelerated rate. This is coming.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. 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. ” reads the PIN report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill that aims at improving the security of IoT devices. House of Representatives last week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill designed to improve the security of IoT devices. Mark Warner (D-Va.) Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large. Implications for IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

The availability online of a new collection of Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices made the headlines. The list appears to be the result of an Internet scan for devices using default credentials or easy-to-guess passwords. 33000+ telnet credentials of IoT devices exposed on pastebin.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The first major piece of cybersecurity legislation to address vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices has passed in California, and is ready to be signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The post California’s Controversial IoT Security Bill Passes appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider. Daniel Kaye.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Mozi botnet accounted for 90% of the IoT network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020, IBM reported. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. ” reads the report published by IBM. ” continues the analysis.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Rapidly evolving malware is posing an ever-greater threat to the IoT - and business users of the Internet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The flaw has exposed the widely distributed smart vacuums to manipulation by bad actors, raising concerns about the cybersecurity of internet-connected home devices. Back in 2017, SecureWorld News reported that cybersecurity researchers took control of an LG 'Smart' vacuum and spied on the home through the device's camera.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 21, 2017

CTO John Graham-Cumming discusses the growth of the business cloud and security solutions for a rapidly-evolving internet that includes mobile, IoT, and machine learning. Cloudflare processes 10% of all requests on the web.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. At its peak, Mirai enslaved over 600,000 vulnerable IoT devices, according to our measurements.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Mirai enslaves poorly secured “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers for use in large-scale online attacks. A depiction of the outages caused by the Mirai attacks on Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company. Source: Downdetector.com.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Avast spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 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. attackers abuse M2M protocols to target IoT and IIoT devices. According to a study conducted by experts from Trend Micro and the Polytechnic University of Milan.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 7, 2017

The Internet of Things is arguably the biggest trend of CES 2017, but it's also a massive security risk. BlackBerry's Chief Security Officer explains how it can mitigate the IoT cybersecurity threat.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 31, 2022

The medical internet of things (IoT) market is expected to reach $158 billion in valuation in 2022, up from its 2017 value of $41 billion. The post Using Wi-Fi 6 to Power Hyper-Aware Healthcare Facilities appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Security experts warn of a new piece of the Silex malware that is bricking thousands of IoT devices, and the situation could rapidly go worse. Silex is not the first IoT malware with this behavior, back in 2017 BrickerBot bricked millions of devices worldwide. Cashdollar (@_larry0) June 25, 2019. ” reported ZDnet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The news is not surprising, unfortunately in many cases IoT devices, including IP cameras, are deployed without proper security measures. As worrying as it may seem, this comes as a clear reminder that when cameras are placed on the internet, they must be properly installed with security in mind. ” continues the article.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 9, 2019

The number of flaws found in WordPress and its associated plugins have tripled since 2017, while Internet of Things vulnerabilities dropped significantly, according to data collected by Imperva.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

. “According to court documents, the botnets were initially based largely on the source code previously developed by other individuals to create the Mirai botnet;” In September 2019, Schuchman pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets. Schuchman also managed the purchases of new exploits for the botnet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Adopt a comprehensive IoT security solution. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University , his former alma mater. In January 2017, almost a year before Jha’s arrest and guilty plea, KrebsOnSecurity identified Jha as the likely co-author of Mirai — which sprang to notoriety after a record-smashing Sept.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

A new variant of TheMoon malware infected thousands of outdated small office and home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices worldwide. The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 cybercrime damages will amount to a staggering $6 trillion annually starting in 2021. 7 million in 2017 to a new high of US$13. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. First off, connected vehicles and IoT devices are highly attractive targets to hackers. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The botnet was able to exploit an older vulnerability in unpatched EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controllers (ESBCs) that is tracked as CVE-2017-6079. This is another example of how unpatched edge and IoT [Internet of Things] devices are highly attractive targets for threat actors,” Broomhead told eSecurity Planet.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The latest iteration of the campaign has shifted its focus to Internet of Things... The post HiatusRAT Campaign Targets Web Cameras and DVRs: FBI Warns of Rising IoT Exploits appeared first on Cybersecurity News. The FBI, in collaboration with CISA, has issued a new alert regarding the HiatusRAT malware campaign.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2025

Tbps UDP DDoS attack against a Cloudflare Magic Transit customer, an Internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. This botnet also uses some existing exploits ( CVE-2024-7029 , CVE-2017-17215 ) to download the next-stage payloads. Mirai malware, here dubbed as Murdoc Botnet, is a prominent malware family for *nix systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526 , to gain full control over the targeted systems. The vulnerability in dnaLIMS was reported to the vendor in 2017, but it is still unpatched. The attacks were originated from the 2.176.78.42 IP address that is located in Iran.

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