Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

While details remain sparse, reports suggest social engineering tactics like phishing, SIM swapping, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks may have been used to infiltrate systems. Using strong, unique passwords and enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) or preferably passkeys wherever possible remains vital.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 7, 2025

Secure Updates: Firmware and software updates must utilize secure delivery methods, such as signed updates with verification mechanisms to prevent tampering. Interoperability: High assurance systems must integrate seamlessly with multi-factor authentication frameworks. authentication, encryption) that products can implement.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Activate MFA on all accounts that offer it, preferably using authenticator apps or hardware keys. Be Cautious with Smart Devices: Secure your IoT devices by changing default passwords and keeping firmware updated.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2025

Read the blog Frequently Asked Questions About Iranian Cyber Operations. Contextualize OT vulnerabilities: Understand the specific risks posed by vulnerabilities within your OT environment, taking into account firmware versions, proprietary research and the potential impact on operational continuity.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2025

blog) Know Your Exposure: Is Your Cloud Data Secure in the Age of AI? (on-demand Protect all administrative access with phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication. Keep firmware updated. Remove direct internet access to device management interfaces, restricting admins to internal and secure management networks.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

A new vulnerability in home routers that run Arcadyan firmware wreaks havoc in the world of cybersecurity, being actively taken advantage of by threat actors. This exploited vulnerability is now classified as CVE-2021-20090 and the danger is that hackers can use this to skip the authentication procedure.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I also looked at custom firmware and soldering and why, to my mind, that was a path I didn't need to go down at this time. Let's got through the options: Firmware Patching I'll start with the devices themselves and pose a question to you: can you remember the last time you patched the firmware in your light globes? Or vibrator.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

Researchers at RandoriSec have found serious vulnerabilities in the firmware provided by UDP Technology to Geutebrück and many other IP camera vendors. According to the researchers the firmware supplier UDP Technology fails to respond to their reports despite numerous mails and LinkedIn messages. History lessons. Mitigation.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On Friday, a Twitter account going by the handle “freak” shared links to what they claimed to be the UEFI firmware source code for Intel Alder Lake, which they claim was made available by 4chan. Intel confirms the source code leak for the UEFI BIOS is authentic. Alder Lake is the name of the company’s […].

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2023

The malware was likely deployed in 2021, and was able to persist on the appliances tenaciously, even surviving firmware upgrades. It offers a combined single-sign-on (SSO) web portal to authenticate users, so intercepting user credentials would give an attacker that is after sensitive information a huge advantage.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

The vulnerability is an 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, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.50

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

All exploits must either bypass authentication mechanisms or require no authentication. Firmware Updates Pwn2Own requires exploits to work against the latest firmware versions at the time of the competition. This competition involves teams researching certain devices to find and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers observed both the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets using an exploit for a post-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web Gateways 5.0.2.8. Experts note that the exploit is only effective for authenticated sessions and the affected devices are End of Life (EOL) from 2012.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

In order to exploit the flaw, an attacker has to upgrade an affected device to a crafted version of the firmware. “This vulnerability is due to a missing authentication process within the firmware upgrade function.” “Cisco has not released firmware updates to address this vulnerability.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Over-the-air (OTA) software and firmware updates must be delivered securely and effectively. Secure Boot : Use in conjunction with firmware verification to ensure the device only boots up after it has validated the state of the trust in the device.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

By using the manufacturer’s built-in ports, we were able to manipulate on-board components and interact with the device.Combining both known and novel techniques, we were able to achieve root access to the device’s operating system and pull its firmware for emulation and vulnerability discovery.” Overall 4.8. Overall 4.8.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

D-Link fixed two critical flaws in its D-View 8 network management suite that could lead to authentication bypass and arbitrary code execution. in its D-View 8 network management suite that could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. ” reads the advisory published by ZDI.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. It is worrying that all analyzed brands have at least some models that allow users to keep default passwords or have no authentication setup whatsoever.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Netgear N300 MIPS firmware image. What's Special about Firmware? Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Extracting Firmware. Prerequisites.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Netgear N300 MIPS firmware image. What's Special about Firmware? Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Extracting Firmware. Prerequisites.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

. “NETGEAR strongly recommends that you download the latest firmware as soon as possible.” ” The vendor addressed the issues in April 2023 with the release of firmware version 1.0.10.94 The remaining ones are authentication bypass and command injection flaws. for the RAX30 router family. We are in the final!

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 24, 2021

A few weeks ago we blogged about a vulnerability in home routers that was weaponized by the Mirai botnet just two days after disclosure. The vulnerabilities were found and disclosed by IoT Inspector , a platform for automated security analysis of IoT firmware. Exactly what Mirai wants. Vulnerabilities. Same botnet, same operator?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 18, 2024

Researchers at Imperva published a blog post about the ransomware, TellYouThePass, which has been in operation since 2019. According to NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD), a logic error exists in the device’s code that could lead to authentication bypass. It affects both Windows and Linux.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2022

Specifically, the NGINX LDAP reference implementation which uses LDAP to authenticate users of applications being proxied by NGINX. LDAP can also tackle authentication, so users can sign on just once and access many different files on the server. It’s written in Python and communicates with a LDAP authentication server.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The vulnerabilities affect QNAP TS-231 SOHO NAS devices running firmware version 4.3.6.1446 that reached end of life (EOL). “During the inspection, we fuzzed the web server with customized HTTP requests to different cgi pages, with focus on those that do not require prior authentication. ” continues the advisory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In this blog, and in and accompanying interview with our colleague Daniel Hjort from Nexus Group, we discuss the challenges that industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. As an increasing number of connected devices are deployed within IoT ecosystems, enterprises need to identify and authenticate them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates/patches are released. Use multifactor authentication where possible. Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, secure location (e.g.,

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the results of a vulnerability research study focused on a popular model of smart pet feeder. 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.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

August 12, 2024 Ivanti Runs Into Snag With Virtual Traffic Manager Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. The problem: Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager has a vulnerability that could lead to authentication bypass and subsequent creation of an administrator when exploited. Install Web Help Desk version 12.8.3

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3). Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50. Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the re-used Mirai modules , their functionality, and the Uptycs EDR detection capabilities of Gafgyt. Keep systems and firmware updated with the latest releases and patches. The modules are: HTTP flooding UDP flooding TCP flooding STD module Telnet Bruteforce. Click to see larger version.).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Requirements also included that the firmware was to be signed by the manufacturer and verified by the pacemaker.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

That is not much different from what happens with software and firmware code signing today. Whether it is a software upgrade for a program, a mobile application, or firmware for a device, code is signed, sealed, and delivered, and you are left with the future in your hands! It ensures provenance, authenticity, and integrity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Enforce multifactor authentication for all remote access to ICS networks and devices whenever possible. Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Okta is a widely used authentication services provider, and it is safe to assume that a hacker controlling their network would be able to infect any of their customers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Make sure you do everything possible to secure your mobile devices and that both the firmware and software are routinely updated. It’s time to review and reinforce remote access security policies, especially in the areas of authentication and privileged access. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Always remember.

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