Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

Researchers from WootCloud Labs have uncovered a new IoT botnet named Ares that is targeting Android-based devices. Experts from WootCloud Labs have spotted a new IoT botnet tracked as Ares that is targeting Android-based devices that have a debug port exposed online. IoT #malware branches seen in ???????? (by by unique IP): 1.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

IoT Design Frameworks 2.2. Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, distributed systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and business processes. The CoP includes the following recommendations for manufacturers: No default passwords. Table of contents 1.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The worldwide number of IoT-connected devices is projected to increase to 43 billion by 2023 , an almost threefold increase from 2018 , demonstrating the pace at which the world is becoming more connected. The post Securing the future of IoT devices appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. Interested and want to learn more?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide. Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

The drivers of IoT-centric commerce appear to be unstoppable. Count on the wide deployment of IoT systems to continue at an accelerated rate. There are already more IoT devices than human beings on the planet, according to tech industry research firm Gartner. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018.

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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. ” continues the DoJ. ” the DoJ concludes.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 13, 2019

Forget about Congress's latest attempt to regulate IoT security. The post Spotlight: CTIA’s IoT Cybersecurity Certification is a Big Deal. Forget about Congress’s latest attempt to regulate IoT security. to reign in insecure IoT endpoints. Setting a Bar on IoT Cyber Security. Here’s why.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A 2018 deepfaked video of Barack Obama synced to an audio track created by comedian Jordan Peele caused politicians sparked popular demand that technology companies more actively filter out content utilizing the technology, citing concerns about potential election interference. An artificially generated “person.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2018 alone, California has passed several laws that they hope will inspire other states – and ultimately, Congress – to passing cybersecurity laws that better address the issues of our time. In August 2018, California became the first state with a law requiring security for IoT (Internet of Things) devices. What the law does.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? They spoke at BlackHat USA 2021 where they launched a new tool to find IoT based CnC servers. Clearly, there needs to be another approach. Davanian: This is Ali.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Pappachen said Sizmek forced a password reset on all internal employees (“a few hundred”), and that the company is scrubbing its SAS user database for departed employees, partners and vendors whose accounts may have been hijacked. ” PASSWORD SPRAYING. BRUTE-FORCE LIGHT.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

We published this tool to help customers ensure these IoT devices are not susceptible to these attacks.” TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-7900, resides in the router administration panel and allows credentials information to leak. An attacker could use IoT search engines such as ZoomEye or Shodan to scan the internet for devices having default passwords. “The attacker does not need to scan the internet for finding the devices.

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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. To find out how many printers were on the menu for our experiment, we searched for IP addresses with open ports on specialized IoT search engines, such as Shodan and Censys.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 29, 2018

pic.twitter.com/soi3J7ygox — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 29, 2018. I also cover off a few other bits this week including my 5-year old daughter coding and a complete breakdown of the costs that going into running the Pwned Passwords component of HIBP. I'm serving 54M requests from Pwned Passwords each week and it's costing me $7!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In late 2016, the world witnessed the sheer disruptive power of Mirai , a powerful botnet strain fueled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices like DVRs and IP cameras that were put online with factory-default passwords and other poor security settings. no password). no password). Source: xiongmaitech.com. BLANK TO BANK.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. Yet, Internet of Things (IoT) devices tend to be designed with the minimum computing resources required to accomplish the designed task of the device (security camera, printer, TV, etc.).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” This can be compounded by certain enterprises using the Internet of Things (IoT) that don’t have good security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 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. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

The FBI has been tracking these attacks for two years: In December 2018, cyber actors started abusing the multicast and command transmission features of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) to conduct DDoS reflection and amplification attacks, resulting in an amplification factor of 34.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

This alone seems to go against the Secure by Design proposal , an already-drafted law that gives power to the Department of Culture, Media, and Sports (DCMS) to order tech makers (phone, tablet, IoT) to be transparent about when they’ll stop providing security updates to their new devices from launch. found: * Weak default passwords.

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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 Guardzilla IoT-enabled home video surveillance system contains a shared Amazon S3 credential used for storing saved video data. . SecurityAffairs – Guardzilla, IoT).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Rapid 7 estimates that there are upwards of 1.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

The firmware released by the company addressed nine vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-28702, CVE-2023-28703, CVE-2023-31195, CVE-2022-46871, CVE-2022-38105, CVE-2022-35401, CVE-2018-1160, CVE-2022-38393, and CVE-2022-26376. CVE-2018-1160 is an out-of-bounds write issue that resides in dsi_opensess.c.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

WPA3 is the newest protocol and offers better security features such as stronger encryption, protection against dictionary attacks, and easier setting of IoT devices, but has yet to become widely used. For example, Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) requires users to provide a password or passphrase to gain access to the network.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2018

Davolink dvw 3200 routers have their login portal up on port 88, the access is password protected, but the password is hardcoded in the HTLM of login page. The story started in 2018 when Anubhav noticed a very basic flaw the routers of the Korean vendor Davolink. function clickApply(sel). {. function clickApply(sel). {.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup Est Headquarters Staff Funding Funding Type Abnormal Security 2018 San Francisco, CA 261 $74.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 Series A Perimeter 81 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel 159 $65.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a flaw in Orange LiveBox ADSL modems to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext. The flaw tracked as CVE-2018-20377 is known at least since 2012 when Rick Murray described it in a blog post. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts. admin/admin).

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With what we experienced in 2016 and 2018, is there any doubt there will be a rise in disinformation–homegrown and imported–of all stripe in the upcoming elections? IoT botnets will make dystopian paranoia seem normal. IoT will continue to grow exponentially. Water finds its level, but it will be rough for a while.

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