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MITRE, CISA Reveal Dangerous Hardware & Software Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

According to MITRE, “Because hardware is not patchable as easily as software, any flaw discovered after release and production typically cannot be fixed without a recall of the product.”. The unranked list contains 12 entries that categorize data found in hardware programming, design, and architecture. The full MITRE-CWE list.

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A new Zerobot variant spreads by exploiting Apache flaws

Security Affairs

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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Attacks Escalating Against Linux-Based IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

The primary goal of all this malware is to compromise the devices and systems, pull them into a botnet and use them for distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks, Maganu wrote. That echoes similar reports that have shown an increase in DDoS attacks worldwide. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers for 2022.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1.

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Securing Public Sector Against IoT Malware in 2024

Security Boulevard

These families are a particularly formidable threat to the public sector — in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. For instance, threat actors can weaponize IoT botnets to execute DDoS attacks targeting essential services and government websites. and East Asia.

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How Hackers Use Payloads to Take Over Your Machine

eSecurity Planet

It usually exploits unpatched and unknown flaws in software (“ zero day ” threats) so there’s no protection or forensic measure possible. You may have heard about the Pegasus software created by the NSO Group. REST is a standardized client-server architecture for APIs where resources can be fetched at specific URLs.

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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

Golang (also known as Go) is an open-source programming language designed by Google and first published in 2007 that makes it easier for developers to build software. It also has different DDoS functionality. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50. Background.

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