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.” x, SPS_E3_05.00.04.027.0.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The WiFi chip encrypts network traffic and holds the current WiFi credentials, thereby providing the attacker with further information.” Threat actors can execute code by exploiting an unpatched or new security issue over-the-air, or abusing the local OS firmware update mechanism. ” concludes the paper.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. Once gained access to the device, the bot attempt to execute a malicious payload and the bot will automatically join the Mozi P2P network.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Information and Threat Monitoring In addition to testing, the IT Department will continuously monitor and scan a variety of sources to obtain information regarding the release of new attack methods and resource vulnerabilities. Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.] The CVSS version 3.0

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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

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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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

You might want to look at their product brief for a more thorough description of the service, and email mirror at fcix dot net for more information. This is when anyone can ask questions (hopefully relating to Kali or the information security industry) to us. It will once again be on OffSec’s Discord.

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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

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 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

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 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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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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat model is a structured representation of all the information that affects the security of an application. In essence, it is a view of the application and its environment through the lens of security. Deploy malicious firmware. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod. A user’s login identity from the mobile app.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Communication is critical, with response teams keeping everyone informed, including management, IT staff, victims, law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33883 – Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CVSS 7.1). Due to the potential critical impact and the state of medical device security, many previous projects didn’t need to dig very deep to find security issues or concerns. Figure 2: System Architecture.

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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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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 .” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Network.

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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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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. Npower removed its mobile app after an attack exposed " some customers' financial and personal information." Serious Linux Vulnerability. Npower App Hack.

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