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.
Digital Guardian
AUGUST 9, 2021
A vulnerability found in some routers and modems could make the devices vulnerable to authentication bypass and in turn, allow attackers access to sensitive information.
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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.
Google Security
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
For the purposes of this blog, we refer to the software that runs on all these other processors as “Firmware”. Android’s defense-in-depth strategy also applies to the firmware running on bare-metal environments in these microcontrollers, as they are a critical part of the attack surface of a device.
Bleeping Computer
AUGUST 7, 2021
Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to take them over and deploy Mirai botnet malicious payloads. [.].
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
A lack of proper code-signing verification and authentication for firmware updates opens the door to information disclosure, remote code execution, denial of service and more.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 10, 2019
Locking down firmware. Starks Federal Communications Commission member Geoffrey Starks recently alluded to the possibility that China may have secretly coded the firmware in Huawei’s equipment to support cyber espionage and cyber infrastructure attacks. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei.
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