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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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A bowl full of security problems: Examining the vulnerabilities of smart pet feeders

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The findings of the study reveal a number of serious security issues, including the use of hard-coded credentials, and an insecure firmware update process. We later managed to extract the firmware from the EEPROM for further static reverse engineering. Further hardware analysis of the circuit board helped us identify chips.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Mirai botnet contributed to a massive denial of service attack that brought parts of the Internet to a standstill, what was remarkable was that Mariah was constructed from 1000s of Internet of Things devices, namely surveillance cameras.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Mirai botnet contributed to a massive denial of service attack that brought parts of the Internet to a standstill, what was remarkable was that Mariah was constructed from 1000s of Internet of Things devices, namely surveillance cameras.

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APT trends report Q1 2022

SecureList

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. In December we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanning technology.

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

ForAllSecure

It was for 1000s of compromised, Internet of Things, enabled devices, such as surveillance cameras, residential gateways, internet connected printers, and even in home baby monitors these devices themselves are often thought of as not having much in the way of resources, and really they don't have many computing resources. Probably not.

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