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

SC Magazine

As the Department of Defense works on standards to dictate 5G rollout, security requirements may be too much for IoT manufacturers. Of course, many security hurdles for IoT device manufacturers are not specific to 5G. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston). ” And yet, many IoT companies might not bother waiting.

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'Downfall' Vulnerability Unveiled as New Security Risk in Intel CPUs

SecureWorld News

This vulnerability, discovered by Google research scientist Daniel Moghimi , threatens to expose encryption keys, passwords, private messages, and more from billions of Intel CPUs produced over the years. This architecture relies on a technique known as the "gather" instruction to speed up memory access and processing.

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Experts spotted a variant of the Agenda Ransomware written in Rust

Security Affairs

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. The Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group uses a double-extortion model, with most of the victims in the manufacturing and IT industries. AGENDA.THIAFBB.”

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Million of vehicles can be attacked via MiCODUS MV720 GPS Trackers

Security Affairs

” The MiCODUS MV720 GPS Tracker is a popular vehicle GPS tracker manufactured in China, which is used by consumers for theft protection and location management, and by organizations for vehicle fleet management. There is no mandatory rule to change the password nor is there any claiming process. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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WEF Outlines Path to Cyber Resilience for Manufacturing Sector

SecureWorld News

The manufacturing sector faces an increasingly daunting cyber threat landscape that puts production operations, intellectual property, and entire supply chains at risk. Manufacturers must make cyber resilience a fully institutionalized part of their organizational identity." trillion annually. "

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DDoS Attacks Skyrocket, Kaspersky Researchers Say

eSecurity Planet

Meris may have infected more than 250,000 devices manufactured by Mikrotik, a Latvian company that develops routers and wireless ISP systems. Operations targeting a manufacturer on such a large scale are pretty unusual, and the specific vulnerabilities exploited in the attacks remain unclear.

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