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CosmicStrand: the discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit

SecureList

One of the main draws towards malware nested in such low levels of the operating system is that it is extremely difficult to detect and, in the case of firmware rootkits, will ensure a computer remains in an infected state even if the operating system is reinstalled or the user replaces the machine’s hard drive entirely.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

I also looked at custom firmware and soldering and why, to my mind, that was a path I didn't need to go down at this time. Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet.

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Tens of thousands of QNAP SOHO NAS devices affected by unpatched RCEs

Security Affairs

The vulnerabilities affect QNAP TS-231 SOHO NAS devices running firmware version 4.3.6.1446 that reached end of life (EOL). The first vulnerability is an RCE issue that affects any QNAP device exposed to the Internet, it resides in the NAS web server (default TCP port 8080). October 23, 2020 – Sent another e-mail to QNAP security team.

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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

The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3). Example 1: main_infectFunctionGponFiber function, exploits CVE-2020-8958. The function exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2020-10173 is shown in figure 9.

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered! Code Signing Makes Software Yours

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

That is not much different from what happens with software and firmware code signing today. Whether it is a software upgrade for a program, a mobile application, or firmware for a device, code is signed, sealed, and delivered, and you are left with the future in your hands! Why Is Code Signing Important? Gartner projects over 20.8

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Both Mirai and Hoaxcalls IoT botnets target Symantec Web Gateways

Security Affairs

“There is no evidence to support any other firmware versions are vulnerable at this point in time and these findings have been shared with Symantec.” Experts first observed the exploitation of the flaw in the wild on April 24, 2020, as part of an evolution of the Hoaxcalls botnet that was first discovered early of April.

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IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware and Soldering

Troy Hunt

Let's drill into all that and then go deeper into custom firmware and soldering too. Disclosure: I bought every piece of equipment in that original blog post. pic.twitter.com/PE3eVLseFY — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 24, 2020 Turns out it was my daughter Elle's Amazon Echo Dot. — Dementor ????

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