Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic of the victims, most of which are in China (96%). Every time a vendor made some attempts to address the problem, the botmaster pushed out multiple firmware updates on the fiber routers to maintain their control.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

“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.” The botnet borrows the code from Tsunami and Gafgyt botnets, it expanded the list of targeted devices and added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquiti installs exposed online. Ubiquiti is aware of the issue and is currently working on a firmware update that will address it anyway it is trying to downplay it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquity installs exposed online. Ubiquity is aware of the issue and is currently working on a firmware update that will address it anyway it is trying to downplay it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. The botnet supports the following capabilities: DDoS attack Collecting Bot Information Execute the payload of the specified URL Update the sample from the specified URL Execute system or custom commands. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The hardware of the terminals is equipped with Shenzen technology, while the firmware is based on BusyBox Linux Debian. . According to Kunz, more than one million devices are potentially at risk, an attacker can trigger the flaws to build a huge botnet that could be used to launch powerful DDoS attacks. ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A Russian security researcher accidentally discovered API and firmware issues that allowed her to take over all Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders. The Russian security researcher Anna Prosvetova, from Saint Petersburg, has accidentally discovered API and firmware issues that allowed her to take over all Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? For the record, KrebsOnSecurity has long advised buyers of IoT devices to avoid those advertise P2P capabilities for just this reason. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

“Like any other IoT device, these robot vacuum cleaners could be marshalled into a botnet for DDoS attacks, but that’s not even the worst-case scenario, at least for owners. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit. Nowadays, such pages are necessary to build a brand, generate new business, and resolve customer issues.

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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. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

At its core, malware exploits existing network, device, or user vulnerabilities , posing as little a risk as annoying advertisements to the much more damaging demand for millions of dollars in ransom. Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface.

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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. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Botnets : Networks of compromised computers are controlled by a central attacker and used for various malicious activities such as launching coordinated distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, providing a staging point for attacks on other victims, or distributing spam.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet. Firmware rootkits are also known as “hardware rootkits.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

20% increase accesses of specific organizations advertised. Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport.

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