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

Security Affairs

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. The researchers explained that it is possible to use these shared resources to launch lateral privilege escalation attacks across wireless chip boundaries.

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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

. “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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Kali Linux 2022.4 Release (Azure, Social & Kali NetHunter Pro)

Kali Linux

users (most devices out there) as you will be able to use wardriving with internal wireless and Bluetooth chipsets , if OTG adapters are not an option. 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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March to 5G could pile on heavier security burden for IoT device manufacturers

SC Magazine

“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, So, for example, if you’re enclaving off a bunch of IoT devices so that they are protected from the internet, you may also be protecting them from firmware updates.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

CyberSecurity Insiders

However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50.

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How Hackers Use Payloads to Take Over Your Machine

eSecurity Planet

A poisoned payload is sent to the targeted device through a wireless connection such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM, or LTE, and gets executed. It can even attack the chip’s firmware and provide root access on the device, which gives more privileges and capabilities than the user. Zero-click attacks don’t.