Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cyclops Blink is believed to be a replacement for the VPNFilter botnet, which was first exposed in 2018 and at the time was composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Lenovo warns of vulnerabilities in its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) shipped with at least 100 notebook models. The vulnerabilities affecting the Lenovo UEFI result from the use of two UEFI firmware drivers, named SecureBackDoor and SecureBackDoorPeim respectively. ” reads the advisory published by Lenovo.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. “The primary causes of the incident include the use of an outdated and vulnerable firmware version on the Fortigate VPN server (version 6.0.2 ” continues Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the malware operators have removed CVE-2018-12613, a phpMyAdmin vulnerability that could allow threat actors to view or execute files. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access. . “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

The threat actors added TOTOLINK exploits just a week after the exploit codes were publicly released on GitHub in the attempt to compromise the largest number of devices as possible before the owners upgrade to the latest firmware releases. TOTOLINK has already addressed these flaws with the release of new firmware for vulnerable devices.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

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. Experts recommend organizations using FortiGate firewall, or anything else powered by FortiOS, to follow Fortinet’s advisory for this issue and upgrade their firmware immediately.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Evdokimov discovered the wiretapping equipment on April 2018 and since June 2018 he worked with ISPs to secure the SORM equipment. ” “All these data make it possible to determine exactly whose traffic this is, and which clients they are,” Evdokimov concluded. ” continues Meduza. billion rubles ($154.5 million). .

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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. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint alert to warn of attacks carried out by APT groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates/patches are released. •

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

But the recommended mitigation strategy is to upgrade the vulnerable BCM firmware through Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates if feasible. However, some old vehicles may not support OTA.” ” the experts recommended. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2021

Security researchers with Tencent Security Keen Lab identified five vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-23906, CVE-2021-23907, CVE-2021-23908, CVE-2021-23909, and CVE-2021-23910, in the latest infotainment system in Mercedes-Benz cars.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

In September 2018, a user by the name “ ципа ” (phonetically “ Zipper ” in Russian) registered on the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam using the edgard0111012@gmail.com address. Residential proxies also can refer to households protected by compromised home routers running factory-default credentials or outdated firmware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Then, they exploited the insecure update mechanism to deliver a tainted firmware to the fob. “Lennert Wouters, a security researcher at Belgian university KU Leuven, today revealed a collection of security vulnerabilities he found in both Tesla Model X cars and their keyless entry fobs.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

Gafgyt also uses some of the existing exploits (CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-10561) to download the next stage payloads, which we will discuss further on. Figure 8: GPON Router Exploit inside binary (CVE-2018-10561). Keep systems and firmware updated with the latest releases and patches. executes the payload. in Figure 8).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

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. In December 2018, the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy was still up and running.

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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.” This is an extension understood by machines running reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is prevalent on many IoT devices.”

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no concrete method to follow as it will rely on contents of the decomposed design from Step 2, but typical examples might include the following: Intellectual property in the device firmware. Deploy malicious firmware. link] [link] Have a software/firmware update mechanism. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

Cyclops Blink is believed to be a replacement for the VPNFilter botnet, which was first exposed in 2018 and at the time was composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

These issues usually occur due to some improper synchronization between user code and the SDK firmware distributed by the SoC vendor, Security Bypass : Vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers in radio range to bypass the latest secure pairing mode of BLE. 2.60 (CVE-2019-16336) and NXP KW41Z 3.40

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Cyclops Blink is believed to be a replacement for the VPNFilter botnet, which was first exposed in 2018 and at the time was composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. ” reads the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 Threat actors compromised third-party software or the installation of malware-laced firmware. 231 banking malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

From BIOS and firmware to UEFI code, VBOS is an attack vector that requires more attention. While the design of a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) overcame BIOS limitations, both components critical to computer operation are an increasing target. Current Target: VBOS.

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Google Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. It quickly became clear that flaws in modern processors undermined the guarantees that web browsers could make about preventing data leaks between applications.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

The WiFi Protected Access 3 ( WPA3) protocol was launched in June 2018 to address all known security issues affecting the previous standards and mitigate wireless attacks such as the KRACK attacks and DEAUTH attacks. Although this makes attacks harder, it does not prevent them.” ” the experts added.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 13, 2019

House of Representatives and the Senate both introduced new legislation this week to secure the burgeoning Internet of Things. Federal Government to meet strict information security standards. Director- Security Consulting at Spirent Communications. to reign in insecure IoT endpoints. Sameer Dixit is the Sr.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. has also attracted a powerful and growing flow of venture capital to the region – about $1 Billion in 2018 and growing at an incredible pace. Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

In September 2018, researchers observed the Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet targeting Android devices with ADB option enabled. By default, Android has Android Debug Bridge (ADB) option disabled, but often vendors enable it to customize the operating system, then ship the devices with the feature turned on.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

They changed their tactics in 2018 and started using ransomware in the form of Ryuk. Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, secure location (i.e., Focus on cyber security awareness and training.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

“Since early 2018, the incidence of broad, indiscriminant ransomware campaigns has sharply declined, but the losses from ransomware attacks have increased significantly, according to complaints received by IC3 and FBI case information. ” reads the public service announcement published by the IC3.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.” ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? Roberts: We've got some great so secure repairs I founded in 2019. I merged that re and so secure repairs.org and there's a link to join us.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.” ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? Roberts: We've got some great so secure repairs I founded in 2019. I merged that re and so secure repairs.org and there's a link to join us.

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