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MY TAKE: Why locking down ‘firmware’ has now become the next big cybersecurity challenge

The Last Watchdog

Locking down firmware. Starks Federal Communications Commission member Geoffrey Starks recently alluded to the possibility that China may have secretly coded the firmware in Huawei’s equipment to support cyber espionage and cyber infrastructure attacks. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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Netgear fixes a critical RCE that could allow to takeover Flagship Nighthawk routers

Security Affairs

Netgear has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to take over AC Router Nighthawk (R7800) hardware running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.68. NETGEAR strongly recommends that you download the latest firmware as soon as possible.”

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How to hack Wincor Cineo ATMs to bypass black-box attack protections and withdraw cash

Security Affairs

An attacker with access to the dispenser controller’s USB port can install an outdated or modified firmware version to bypass the encryption and make cash withdrawals. A research published by Positive Technologies in 2018 revealed that 69 percent of ATMs were vulnerable to such attacks and could be easily hacked in a few minutes.

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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

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50. CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-10088. Multiple ZyXEL network-attached storage (NAS) devices running firmware version 5.2, Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0

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ICS Reconnaissance Attacks – Introduction to Exploiting Modbus

IT Security Guru

Securing and attacking Modbus has therefore been a topic for years, and it was first in 2018 that the Modbus Security protocol (MSP) was published, nearly 40 years after the initial introduction of Modbus. To help mitigate this issue, the Modbus Security Protocol was developed and released in 2018.

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Experts found 9 NAS flaws that expose LenovoEMC, Iomega Devices to hack

Security Affairs

The vulnerabilities are traked as CVE-2018-9074 , CVE-2018-9075 , CVE-2018-9076 , CVE-2018-9077 , CVE-2018-9078 , CVE-2018-9079 , CVE-2018-9080 , CVE-2018-9081 and CVE-2018-9082. 20 and publicly disclosed the vulnerabilities on September 30. Pierluigi Paganini.

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335,923 out of 489,337 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997

Security Affairs

For this reason, if the customer has SSL-VPN enabled, Fortinet is advising customers to take immediate action to upgrade to the most recent firmware release. The researcher describes the issue as a reachable pre-authentication that impacts every SSL VPN appliance. states the report published by Fortinet. ” continues the report.