Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

The CVE-2019-0090 vulnerability affects the firmware running on the ROM of the Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Intel CSME is responsible for initial authentication of Intel-based systems by loading and verifying all other firmware for modern platforms.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2019-0090).

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

The cause of the vulnerability is the improper error message handling in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, and ATP series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

. “The actor has so far primarily deployed Cyclops Blink to WatchGuard devices, but it is likely that Sandworm would be capable of compiling the malware for other architectures and firmware.” The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The unranked list contains 12 entries that categorize data found in hardware programming, design, and architecture. CWE-1277 : Firmware Not Updateable – firmware exploitation exposes the victim to a permanent risk without any possibility to patch weaknesses. The most popular firmware is BIOS and UEFI.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors can execute code by exploiting an unpatched or new security issue over-the-air, or abusing the local OS firmware update mechanism. For example, a new firmware version will not physically remove shared memory from a chip or adjust for arbitrary jitter in a serial protocol. ” concludes the paper. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

In March, TP-Link released a firmware update to address multiple issues, including this vulnerability. ” The Mirai botnet is exploiting the issue to gain access to the device and downloads the malicious payload for the targeted architecture. The vulnerability was first reported to ZDI during the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 event.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Zerobot targets multiple architectures, including i386, amd64, arm, arm64, mips, mips64, mips64le, mipsle, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, and s390x. Maintain device health with updates: Make sure devices are up to date with the latest firmware and patches. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

According to the advisory that was issued with the help of leading cybersecurity firms (Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Schneider Electric), nation-state hacking groups were able to hack multiple industrial systems using a new ICS-focused malware toolkit dubbed PIPEDREAM that was discovered in early 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, Ericsson Network Manager is an Operations support system (‘OSS’ according to network jargon) , which allows the management of all the devices interconnected to it, ensuring the management of configurations, firmware updates and all automation and maintenance operations of an advanced mobile radio network. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

” When security experts began raising the alarm about a possible zero-day in Barracuda’s products, the Chinese hacking group altered their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) in response to Barracuda’s efforts to contain and remediate the incident, Mandiant found. “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

” The same holds true beyond IoT, he added, pointing to challenges in widespread adoption of a “secure” car, despite numerous incidents of automobiles being hacked. Then you’ve got to figure out how to integrate the solutions into a much broader architecture around 5G that would provide the connectivity,” he said. “So,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

. “Our analysis of this particular sample indicates the file executes on microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) architecture. This is an extension understood by machines running reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is prevalent on many IoT devices.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

.” The RCE flaw affects TP-Link Wi-Fi Extender models RE365, RE650, RE350 and RE500 running firmware version 1.0.2, The extender operates on the MIPS architecture, like many routers, the zero-day flaw can be triggered. The extender operates on the MIPS architecture, like many routers, the zero-day flaw can be triggered.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pegasus performs zero-click hacks by exploiting security flaws in popular applications installed by default on iOS and Android, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, or iMessage. NSO’s software provides an interface for performing such high-level cyberattacks, something like a business approach to hacking at scale.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The most interesting characteristic of the Triada Trojan apart is its modular architecture, which gives it theoretically a wide range of abilities. Threat actors compromised third-party software or the installation of malware-laced firmware. The experts speculate the attack vector employed by the Lemon Group is a supply chain attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

The only way to recover infected devices is to manually reinstall the device’s firmware. The IoT malware is targeting any Unix-like system with default login credentials, according to Cashdollar it leverages a Bash shell version to target any architecture running a Unix like OS. SecurityAffairs – Silex malware, hacking).

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For all those that have a PinePhone or a PinePhone Pro, hop over to our download page and join the brave new world of mobile hacking. Wireless firmware has been updated, and Magisk firmware flashing is now patched. Pinebook Pro images have firmware to support the new wireless card on more recent models.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The ÆPIC Leak ( CVE-2022-21233 ) is the first architecturally CPU bug that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data and impacts most 10th, 11th and 12th generation Intel CPUs. Unlike Meltdown and Spectre , ÆPIC Leak is an architectural bug , which means that the sensitive data are disclosed without relying on side channel attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

The IP addresses used for fetching the payloads in Figure 9 (above) were generally the open directories where malicious payloads for different architectures were hosted by the attacker (see Figure 10). Keep systems and firmware updated with the latest releases and patches. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai). executes the payload.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s more than someone hacking into your smart light bulbs and turning on all the lights in your home. Staying current with firmware patches and updates is also key to enabling robust security. . Device security brings its own difficulties. First, with billions of connected devices, there is a vast range of hardware.

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

One of the IPs used by the attacker exposes the WebUI of an internet access router: Some researchers have argued that an attacker may have exploited a vulnerability in the firmware of these routers to compromise them and use them in the attack. only traces of connections to the WebUI could be stored in the firewall logs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2019

In order to determine what miner to deliver, the bot collects system information, such as manufacturer, hardware details, and processor architecture. The script for a. sh reveals shows that the attackers can choose from three different miners. The bot also attempts to lock out other threats by modifying /etc/hosts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In September 2016, source code of one of the most popular botnets named Mirai was leaked and uploaded to one of the hacking community forums, and later uploaded to GitHub with detailed information on the botnet, its infrastructure, configuration and how to build it. Install security and firmware upgrades from vendors, as soon as possible.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. Another type of service sold on the dark web is IoT hacking. Cameras may be hacked for their CPU power only, to mine crypto, or to install DDoS utilities.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As a reminder, virtual machines on Apple Silicon are still limited to arm64 architecture only. Raspberry Pi images now include versioned Nexmon firmware. kali4-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. Extended Compatibility for the Samba Client Starting Kali Linux 2021.4,

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Kali Linux

MAY 15, 2022

Hacking as shown in popular media, has ranged from really fun to completely absurd, so we saw the opportunity to do a tribute to some of our favourite instances (and get a little nostalgic). kali7-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. " VERSION_ID="2022.2"

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We have also added support for the Raspberry Pi 400’s wireless card, however it is very important to note that this is not a nexmon firmware, as nexmon does not currently support it. kali3-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. " VERSION_ID="2021.1"

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Say you are working in a public place, hacking away, and you might not want the distinctive Kali dragon for everyone to see and wonder what it is you are doing. RaspberryPi kernel was updated to 4.19.81, and the firmware package was updated to include the eeprom updates for the RaspberryPi 4. Starting in 2020.1,

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He’s played in ten final DEF CON CTFs, was a part of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge, and recently he’s moderated the live broadcast of the annual Hack-A-Sat competition. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. VAMOSI: I am not a gamer. So I started in my career as a network.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Unique Considerations for Infusion Pump Hacking. Lastly, the pump runs its own custom Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and firmware on a M32C microcontroller. An architecture diagram below helps demonstrates the system layout and design when a pump is present in the docking station. Figure 2: System Architecture.

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 22, 2023

Internal Infrastructure With the release of Debian 12 which came out this summer, we took this opportunity to re-work, re-design, and re-architecture our infrastructure. Build-Logs - Output of our images/platform as well as packages being created on each supported architecture. The highlights of the changelog since the 2023.2

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Multiple, if not all, Zyxel NAS products running firmware versions up to 5.21 “Upon execution, the zi script downloads different architectures of Mirai bot, runs the downloaded binaries, and removes the binaries. are vulnerable to this pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. The vendor advisory is also available.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Once attackers have access, they may steal sensitive data, install malicious software or use the hacked machine as a launchpad for further cyber attacks on systems within the network. Architecture model: A diagram or description of the network and system architecture used to understand possible attack surfaces.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

government and others, we are still no closer to seeing zero trust architecture widely adopted. I am very surprised that the cyber insurance industry has not required zero trust architecture already, but perhaps the $1.4 Even the local public schools near where I live have been hacked. This could easily happen.

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