Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

A security duo has demonstrated how to hack a Tesla Model X’s and open the doors using a DJI Mavic 2 drone equipped with a WIFI dongle. The duo was planning to present the attack at the PWN2OWN 2020 hacking contest, but since it was moved online due to the COVID19 pandemic they opted to privately report the issues to the carmaker.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2020

The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating : On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or locked computer -- and even its hard disk encryption -- to gain full access to the computer's data. Intel responds.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

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. The critical vulnerability, tracked as PSV-2019-0076 , affects Netgear Nighthawk X4S Smart Wi-Fi Router (R7800) family.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A China-linked threat actor used UEFI malware based on code from Hacking Team in attacks aimed at organizations with an interest in North Korea. The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 11, 2019

Session shows how researchers found multiple vulnerability in Canon firmware that can be used in a malware attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

x firmware in an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials.” “The exploitation targets a known vulnerability that has been patched in newer versions of firmware.” The network equipment vendor is now urging customers to update the firmware of their devices as soon as possible. “If 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

The vulnerability impacts devices running firmware versions 7.3.15.0 Zyxel addressed the vulnerability in 2017 with the release of new firmware, however, the vendor warned that a Gafgyt variant was exploiting the flaw in 2019. Additionally, the P660HN-T1A running the latest generic firmware, version 3.40(BYF.11),

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

Researchers discovered two serious flaws, QualPwn bugs, in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC WLAN firmware that could be exploited to hack Android device over the air. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-10538 is a buffer overflow that impacts the Qualcomm WLAN component and the Android Kernel. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2021

x firmware in an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials.” The exploitation targets a known vulnerability that has been patched in newer versions of firmware.”. The network equipment vendor is now urging customers to update the firmware of their devices as soon as possible. reads the alert published by the company.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The bridge discovers the hacker-controlled bulb with updated firmware, and the user adds it back onto their network. ” Check Point reported the issue to Philips and Signify (owner of the Philips Hue brand) in November 2019. The company released firmware p atches for the device in January. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting two Tenda router 0-day vulnerabilities to spread a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). ” When the botnet was first detected in 2019, experts noticed it was exploiting the Tenda zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2020-10987. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2019-13473 and CVE-2019-13474. . The hardware of the terminals is equipped with Shenzen technology, while the firmware is based on BusyBox Linux Debian. . SecurityAffairs – IoT radio devices, hacking). . ” continues the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 181024 CVE-2019-19824 TOTOLINK Realtek SDK based routers, this affects A3002RU through 2.0.0, Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators. 06 and older. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Searching online the expert first found an encrypted firmware, he found on a forum a Portable ROM Dumper , (a custom firmware update file that once loaded, dumps the memory of the camera into the SD Card) that allowed him to dump the camera’s firmware and load it into his disassembler (IDA Pro). ” – Eyal Itkin.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The three flaws reported by the cybersecurity firm are: An authentication bypass tracked CVE-2019-9564 A stack-based buffer overflow, tracked as CVE-2019-12266 , which could lead to remote control execution. A remote attacker could exploit the CVE-2019-9564 flaw to take over the device, including turning on/off the camera.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

In November 2019, security experts first spotted the QSnatch malware that at the time infected thousands of QNAP NAS devices worldwide. Weitere Informationen von unseren Kollegen bei @CERTFI : [link] — CERT-Bund (@certbund) October 31, 2019. Webshell functionality for remote access. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” Fortinet published a security advisory for the issue that is tracked as CVE-2019-17659. Below the timeline of the vulnerability: Dec 2, 2019: Email sent to Fortinet PSIRT with vulnerability details. Dec 3, 2019: Automated reply from PSIRT that email was received. Jan 3, 2019: Public Release. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2020

Since December 2019, researchers from Qihoo 360 observed two different attack groups that are employing two zero-days exploits to take over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. The attacker is snooping on port 21,25,143,110 (1/2) — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) December 25, 2019. #0-day

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. “Cyclops Blink persists on reboot and throughout the legitimate firmware update process.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

The list includes: IP addresses of Pulse Secure VPN servers Pulse Secure VPN server firmware version SSH keys for each server A list of all local users and their password hashes Admin account details Last VPN logins (including usernames and cleartext passwords) VPN session cookies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pulse VPN).

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

Intel Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a serious flaw in Processor Diagnostic Tool and minor issue in the Solid State Drives (SSD) for Data Centers (DC). The “high severity” vulnerability in the Processor Diagnostic Tool is tracked as CVE-2019-11133, it was rated with a CVSS score of 8.2 and Prior affects all prior versions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

16 vulnerabilities in Codesys products could result in remote code execution and DoS attacks exposing OT environments to hacking. An attacker can trigger the flaw to gain remote code execution and conduct denial-of-service attacks under specific conditions, exposing operational technology (OT) environments to hacking.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

AMD is going to release patches for a flaw affecting the System Management Mode (SMM) of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Danny Odler, it resides in the AMD’s Mini PC could allow attackers to manipulate secure firmware and execute arbitrary code.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

According to the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360’s Netlab team, operators of several botnets , including Chalubo , FBot , and Moobot , targeting LILIN DVRs at least since August 30, 2019. The new firmware released by the vendors validated the hostname passed as input to prevent command execution. ” Netlab concludes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Netgear is addressing ten vulnerabilities affecting nearly 80 of its products, including issues discovered at the Pwn2Own hacking competition. Some of the vulnerabilities were discovered during the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest and reported through the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Netgear).

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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

JULY 25, 2020

Some of the flaws were reported in February 9, 2019, other issues date back to March 2020, but all of them have been publicly disclosed on July 22. The vendor pointed out that DAP-1522 and DIR-816L models that have reached their “end of support” phase, this means that these devices running firmware versions v1.42 (and below) and v12.06.B09

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

The first iLnkP2P flaw tracked as CVE-2019-11219 is an enumeration vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to discover devices exposed online. The second issue tracked as CVE-2019-11220 can be exploited by an attacker to intercept connections to vulnerable devices and conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If we try to describe this feature and how the attackers took advantage of it, it all comes down to this: they are able to write data to a certain physical address while bypassing the hardware-based memory protection by writing the data, destination address, and data hash to unknown hardware registers of the chip unused by the firmware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Security experts at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-16920. The vulnerability is an unauthenticated command injection issue that was discovered on September 2019. SecurityAffairs – routers, hacking). The flaw has received a CVSS v31 base score of 9.8

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

7 ] CVE-2019-19781 : Citrix Virtual Private Network (VPN) Appliances – CISA has observed the threat actors attempting to discover vulnerable Citrix VPN Appliances. CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[ CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fortinet published a security advisory for the issue that is tracked as CVE-2019-17659. Fortinet urges customers to install the patch for CVE-2019-17659 , or restrict the access to FortiSIEM’s “ tunneluser ” port (19999). SecurityAffairs – Fortinet, hacking). reads the advisory. “A reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

The eCh0raix ransomware has been active since at least 2019, when eExperts from security firms Intezer and Anomali separately discovered sample of the ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NAS). Create complex login passwords to make brute-forcing more difficult for attackers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mozi botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from security firm Symantec, it is a persistent Android dropper app that is able to reinstall itself even after users attempt to uninstall it. In this case, reflashing is pointless, so it would be worth considering alternative firmwares for your device.

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