Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. The firmware malware is based on code associated with HackingTeam’s VectorEDK bootkit, with minor changes. ” concludes the report.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Working exploits for LAN and WAN interface accesses were respectively reported by Team Viettel and Qrious Security. In March, TP-Link released a firmware update to address multiple issues, including this vulnerability. The vulnerability was first reported to ZDI during the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 event.

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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. “The continuous evolution and rapid addition of new capabilities in the latest Zerobot version underscores the urgency of implementing comprehensive security measures.”

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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.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

“The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. . “The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices.

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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

MAY 12, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintains a list of known exploited vulnerabilities that can be referenced to check for active exploitation. Broader vulnerability management will require more customization of settings, IT architecture adjustments, and the installation of additional security tools or controls.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Researchers uncovered a new flaw, dubbed ÆPIC, in Intel CPUs that enables attackers to obtain encryption keys and other secret information from the processors. 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.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kali Blog Recap Since our last release, we did the following blog posts : The great non-free-firmware transition Kali Linux DEI Promise Community Shout-Outs These are people from the public who have helped Kali and the team for the last release. amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture.

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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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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For the time being, the image is for ARM64 architecture, hopefully additional flavors will come later. This is where anyone can ask questions to us about Kali or the information security industry as a whole. kali3-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture.

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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. pic.twitter.com/Ue661ku0fy — Larry W.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2021

For the last nine years, the Cyber Defense Magazine Global InfoSec Awards have recognized companies in the information security space who demonstrate a unique and compelling value proposition for their executives, products, or services.

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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. The malicious script: using wget command, fetches the payload.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Drivers, Firmware, Software : Cloud providers bear responsibility to secure, test, and update the software and code that supports the firmware and the basic software infrastructure of the cloud. IaaS servers, PaaS applications, and SaaS can be easily started by employees, who might forget to inform security.

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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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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no concrete method to follow as it will rely on contents of the decomposed design from Step 2, but typical examples might include the following: Intellectual property in the device firmware. Deploy malicious firmware. link] [link] Have a software/firmware update mechanism. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod.

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Google Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. We've confirmed that this proof-of-concept, or its variants, function across a variety of operating systems, processor architectures, and hardware generations.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

. “ Mukashi brute forces the logins using different combinations of default credentials, while informing its command and control (C2) server of the successful login attempts. Multiple, if not all, Zyxel NAS products running firmware versions up to 5.21 are vulnerable to this pre-authentication command injection vulnerability.

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Notice Bored

JANUARY 9, 2021

So, egged-on by information security pro's and IT auditors (me, for instance), management took the risk seriously and invested significant resources into solving "the Y2k issue". Go ahead, show me the associated risk profiles and documented security architectures. We had all that back in 99. Oh wait, you have one?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There's the you know, these little ESP chips that have like, all in one Wi Fi and a little Linux or a little you know that OS that's just trivial and you download the firmware, you tweak a few things and you've got blinky lights, the magic can talk to other things and like do all sorts of cool stuff. Everybody's building their own badges.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES. SonicWall issues Firmware Patch after Attackers Exploited Critical Bugs. Serious Linux Vulnerability.

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