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Practical coexistence attacks on billions of WiFi chips allow data theft and traffic manipulation

Security Affairs

Boffins discovered bugs in WiFi chips that can be exploited to extract passwords and manipulate traffic by targeting a device’s Bluetooth component. According to the research paper published by the experts, modern mobile devices use separate wireless chips to manage wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and LTE.

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Remotely Accessing Secure Kali Pi

Kali Linux

Overview While wired networking in the initramfs does not require a lot of extras, wireless has a few more moving parts. Overview While wired networking in the initramfs does not require a lot of extras, wireless has a few more moving parts. Interface Name First, we need to know what our wireless interface is called.

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Mozi Botnet is responsible for most of the IoT Traffic

Security Affairs

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. The sample spreads via Telnet with weak passwords and some known exploits (see the list below).

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March to 5G could pile on heavier security burden for IoT device manufacturers

SC Magazine

Second, you need a robust way to do secure enrollment on the devices so that there isn’t some default username and password that make it vulnerable,” said Charles Clancy, senior vice president and general manager at MITRE, during the panel. “If And how do you vet those firmware updates?

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Attacks Escalating Against Linux-Based IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

See also: EU to Force IoT, Wireless Device Makers to Improve Security. CrowdStrike in 2021 also saw a 123 percent year-over-year increase in samples of XorDDoS, a Trojan aimed at multiple Linux architectures, including those powered by x86 chips from Intel and AMD as well as Arm processors. Mozi, XorDDoS and Mirai.

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

SecureList

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. The first time the feeder is used, the user must set up the wireless network that the feeder will use from this app.

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Kali Linux 2022.2 Release (GNOME 42, KDE 5.24 & hollywood-activate)

Kali Linux

Kali NetHunter Updates The legendary @yesimxev has added a new WPS Attacks tab to the Kali NetHunter app, which utilizes OneShot to perform various WPS attacks without monitor mode from your internal wireless chip, even from your Kali NetHunter watch! The TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, LTE, Ultra GPS, Ultra LTEare receiving initial NetHunter support.