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FDA Playbook Engineers Safety Into Medical Device Manufacturing

SecureWorld News

The FDA emphasizes that cyber resilience must be "engineered into" devices at the earliest phases of development. The playbook outlines a structured, collaborative approach to identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats across the product lifecycle—from design to distribution.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. Patching and vulnerability management Apply timely security updates to operating systems, software, and firmware.

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Fully segregated networks? Your dual-homed devices might disagree

Pen Test Partners

Crucially, due to a combination of outdated firmware resulting in unintended exposure of network services and cleartext transmission of weak, reused and default passwords, these dual-homed devices could enable an attacker to compromise critical control and safety networks from untrusted network zones.

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Mercedes-Benz Head Unit security research report

SecureList

Their report is a good starting point for diving deep into the MBUX internals and understanding the architecture of the system. Full information on the MBUX architecture can be found in the KeenLab research. Firmware The MMB runs on Linux, and its filesystems are located on the eMMC. MBUX was previously analysed by KeenLab.

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Weaponizing Group Policy: Custom Client-Side Extensions as a Stealthy Backdoor into Active Directory

Penetration Testing

This architecture offers a dangerous opportunity: if an attacker can register their own CSE, they gain persistent SYSTEM-level code execution across all machines applying the GPO. Registered in the Windows registry under the HKLM:SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonGPExtensions path.

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MY TAKE: Why locking down ‘firmware’ has now become the next big cybersecurity challenge

The Last Watchdog

Locking down firmware. Starks Federal Communications Commission member Geoffrey Starks recently alluded to the possibility that China may have secretly coded the firmware in Huawei’s equipment to support cyber espionage and cyber infrastructure attacks. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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Dynamic analysis of firmware components in IoT devices

SecureList

As a rule, this means that the source code of the device’s firmware is unavailable and all the researcher can use is the user manual and a few threads on some user forum discussing the device’s operation. The vulnerability assessment of IoT/IIoT devices is based on analyzing their firmware.

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