The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. Here are a few takeaways: Minimum requirements A few years back, a spate of seminal IoT hacks grabbed the full attention of governments worldwide. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

That may be because the patches were included in version 4 of the firmware for the EAS devices, and many older models apparently do not support the new software. 2017, an EAS station in Indiana also was hacked, with the intruders playing the same “zombies and dead bodies” audio from the 2013 incidents. and Marquette, Mich.

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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. pw was their domain.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

A hacking campaign, tracked as Eternal Silence, is abusing UPnP to compromise routers and use them to carry out malicious activities. In April 2018, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP) , experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Hong Kong, 16.11.2018 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, presented the findings of its latest Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report at the FinTech Security Conference in Hong Kong organized by Binary Solutions Limited in partnership with Group-IB. Attacks on Crypto.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

a consumer watchdog in the UK, recently released its findings about routers issued by UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Firmware updates aren’t only important for performance, they’re also needed to fix security issues when they arise. Lack of updates. A wake up call to ISPs. ” says Kate Bevan, computer editor for Which?

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 16, 2019

Sarah Zatko of the Cyber Independent Testing Lab joins us to talk about CITL's big new study of firmware security. » Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Unpacking Black Hat Hacks with Digicert CTO Dan Timpson Episode 156: Looming over Black Hat: doing Security at Massive Scale Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The most severe vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-16593 is a command-injection flaw that resides in the Sony application Photo Sharing Plus that allows users to share multimedia content from their mobile devices via Sony Smart TVs. . Click the Firmware update link for details about how to check the software version. .”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

. “During the 0DAYALLDAY Research Event a vulnerability was discovered ( CVE-2018-5560 ) in the Guardzilla Security Video System Model #: GZ521W. The vulnerability lies within the design and implementation of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) credentials inside the Guardzilla Security Camera firmware.”

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Security Affairs

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

JUNE 25, 2021

WD is investigating the mysterious wave of attacks launched and speculates that attackers have been exploiting a known vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-18472 , to wipe the devices. The vendor pointed out that both My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received the last firmware update back in 2015 and are no longer supported.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

. “Cisco Talos recently discovered several vulnerabilities present within the firmware of the Samsung SmartThings Hub.” Samsung SmartThings Hub runs a Linux-based firmware and allows for communications with various IoT devices using various wireless standards Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Bluetooth. RCE Chain – CVE-2018-3911.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Russian Government obliges national ISPs to purchase and install the probes used by SORM system that allows the Federal Security Service (FSB) to monitor Internet traffic including online communications. Evdokimov discovered the wiretapping equipment on April 2018 and since June 2018 he worked with ISPs to secure the SORM equipment.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443.

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mozi botnet). ” continues the analysis. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Anubhav explained that the passwords are related to Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is known to be affected by a five-year-old vulnerability tracked as CVE-2013-6117. Even if the vulnerability has been patched, many Dahua devices are still running ancient firmware. — Ankit Anubhav (@ankit_anubhav) July 13, 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

“The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet.” The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia). ” reads the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2018

” The experts focused their analysis on the impact of key reuse on Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). The cryptographic key for IPsec leverages the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol, which has two versions, IKEv1 and IKEv2. Securi ty Affairs – IPsec, hacking). IPsec is used for virtual private networks (VPNs).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Now experts found 12 vulnerabilities in the BLE software development kits (SDKs) of seven SoC vendors (Texas Instruments, NXP, Cypress, Dialog Semiconductors, Microchip, STMicroelectronics and Telink Semiconductor) that could be exploited to hack into various smart devices, including devices and environmental tracking or sensing systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The D-Link DNS-320 model is no more available for sale, one of the members of the forum explained that the firmware of its NAS was never updated and its device was exposed to WAN through ports 8080, FTP port 21, and a range of ports for port forwarding.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Both the vulnerabilities (dubbed CVE-2018-18472 and CVE-2018-18471) remain unpatched at the time of this publication. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In September 2016, source code of one of the most popular botnets named Mirai was leaked and uploaded to one of the hacking community forums, and later uploaded to GitHub with detailed information on the botnet, its infrastructure, configuration and how to build it. Install security and firmware upgrades from vendors, as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

. “The hackers behind it reportedly took advantage of poorly configured routers that had the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service enabled, which caused the routers to forward public ports to the private devices and be open to the public internet,” reads the analysis published by Yang. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

The two vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2018-10987 and CVE-2018-10988 , the former could be exploited by a remote attacker meanwhile the latter needs physical access to the device. Securi ty Affairs – Smart vacuums, hacking). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-3937, is a command injection issue that affects the measurementBitrateExec features implemented in the IPELA E Series Network Camera. Both vulnerabilities effects Sony IPELA E series G5 firmware 1.87.00, the tech giant released an update last week to address them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT has helped mitigate many risks associated with fraud and has helped detect and block hacked accounts. In June 2018, Visa payment systems crashed throughout Europe , preventing millions of customers from using POS devices to pay for goods. Secure Firmware Updates Are a Necessity for Resilient IoT Deployments. Fraud detection.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably the future of technology. IoT Opens Excessive Entry Points. Lack of Cybersecurity Knowledge.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a result, 40 million credit and debit card details were stolen, and Target spent a total of $202 million to recover from the hack. A hardware supply chain attack was reportedly unveiled by Bloomberg in 2018. Any threats coming from the internet must be stopped at the endpoint. What is a supply chain attack?

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Unique Considerations for Infusion Pump Hacking. Perhaps the most well-known research was presented in 2018 at Blackhat by Billy Rios and Johnathan Butts. Lastly, the pump runs its own custom Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and firmware on a M32C microcontroller. Initial Access. Privilege Escalation. Crossing Systems.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After the attacks came to light, the manufacturer promptly released a firmware update for configuring verification of incoming requests. Dear players, The PUBG MOBILE team are currently actively working to resolve the DDoS attacks against our systems and the new hacking issues. For information, please check out here: [link].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. ” reads the public service announcement published by the IC3.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts. Amazon Music.

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