Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London. The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London and added it to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io Unfortunately, wireless data is notoriously vulnerable to hacks and exploits. To protect medical devices with PKI, each device needs to have certain components (certificates, keys) embedded during the manufacturing process.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. ” But USDoD said that in early December, their email address in the name of the CEO received a reply saying the application had been approved (see redacted screenshot to the right).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could be exploited by remote attackers to Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “An attacker who is able to extract the secret key would be able to authenticate to any Rockwell Logix controller.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, PLC). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ukraine’s intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, ‘Rosaviatsia.’ ’ Ukraine’s intelligence service announced they have hacked Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, ‘Rosaviatsia.’ ” reads the announcement. ” reads the announcement.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. I had a chance to discuss this seminal transition with George Avetisov, co-founder and chief executive officer of HYPR , a Manhattan-based supplier of advanced authentication technologies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

A couple of researchers demonstrated how to bypass vein based authentication using a fake hand build from a photo. If you consider vein based authentication totally secure, you have to know that a group of researchers demonstrated the opposite at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

This allowed ESET researchers to identify devices previously used in a data center/ cloud computing business (specifically, a router provisioning a university’s virtualized assets), a nationwide US law firm, manufacturing and tech companies, a creative firm, and a major Silicon Valleybased software developer, among others.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Braun ‘s Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump and SpaceStation that could be remotely hacked. CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7) CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2) An attacker doesn’t need any authentication to conduct the attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Researchers demonstrated how crooks could hack Diebold Nixdorf’s Wincor Cineo ATMs to bypass black-box attack protections and withdraw cash. Wincor is currently owned by ATM manufacturer giant Diebold Nixdorf. Experts recommend to enable physical authentication for the operator during firmware installation.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“Some utilities are afraid that if their vulnerabilities are shared the hackers will have some inside knowledge on how to hack them,” Arceneaux said. “He was defending this person who’d hacked into a drinking water system and had gotten all the way to the pumps and control systems,” Weiss recalled.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Peripheral devices with unsigned firmware can expose Windows and Linux machines to hack, warn experts from firmware security firm Eclypsium. This means that these components have no way to validate that the firmware loaded by the device is authentic and should be trusted. SecurityAffairs – unsigned firmware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

All too often, this gives them a false sense of security: when in fact, threat actors can not only access and watch your camera feed but exploit the unsecured device to hack into your network. After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 SecurityAffairs – hacking, IP cameras).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

16 vulnerabilities in Codesys products could result in remote code execution and DoS attacks exposing OT environments to hacking. An attacker can trigger the flaw to gain remote code execution and conduct denial-of-service attacks under specific conditions, exposing operational technology (OT) environments to hacking.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-32941 can be exploited by an attacker to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a provider of home and business security solutions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

509 [2] certificates) and encrypted, authenticated connections (TLS [3] and its precursor, SSL [4] ). For instance, suppose firewall manufacturer ACME Inc. Mikrotik The router and switch manufacturer Mikrotik also offers a DDNS service on the sn.mynetname.net and integrates an ACME client into their appliances.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2019

Security experts at Pen Test Partners discovered several vulnerabilities in two smart car alarm systems put three million vehicles globally at risk of hack. Simply by tampering with parameters, one can update the email address registered to the account without authentication, send a password reset to the modified address (i.e.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and defense contractors. Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Then the threat actor gains access to the victim’s Microsoft 365 account.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What I found most commendable about this Neubiberg, Germany-based semiconductor manufacturer is that it is fully directing its innovations squarely at reversing the negative impacts of climate change. They come with a “secure element” which embeds encryption keys and authentication certificates at the chip level. “We

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Hackology

JUNE 12, 2023

We’ll also see how hackers and law enforcement can hack your biometric security using this attack. iOS devices exhibit stronger authentication security. It works by injecting a checksum error that terminates the authentication process before completion. This can lead them to bypass fingerprint-based authentication systems.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

When the time came for furniture manufacturer and distributor La-Z-Boy to implement a multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution, they turned to Duo Security. La-Z-Boy is a producer of reclining chairs and a manufacturer/distributor of residential furniture in the United States.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

To secure the device from fraudulent access, mobile operating system manufacturers are coming up with various security features, among which phone PIN is the most commonly used option. Well, according to the SANS Institute, 26% of devices using the above-mentioned passcodes were easily hacked by cybercriminals in the past three years.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

The Agency warns the cybersecurity firm could be implicated in hacking attacks during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns according to §7BSIlaw before using virus protection software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BSI).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking). SP1 for Windows. ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Flow computers are used to calculate volume and flow rates for oil and gas that are critical to electric power manufacturing and distribution. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ABB Totalflow). Researchers from industrial security firm Claroty disclosed details of a vulnerability affecting ABB Totalflow flow computers and remote controllers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2019

The hot tubs could be remotely controlled by an app, dubbed Balboa Water App, that lack of authentication mechanisms. The unprotected devices can be easily hacked because the AP is open and no PSK is used. An attacker could hack into the hot tubs in the nearby or remotely. SecurityAffairs – IoT, hacking).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

But a new discovery made by the National Security Agency(NSA) of United States has revealed that Russian hacking group APT28 is launching Brute Force Cyber Attacks using Kubernetes to ensure anonymity. APT28 aka Fancy Bear or Strontium is a hacking group that is funded by Russian Military Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data Leak). Original post @ [link]. Under an umbrella with leaky shoes, indeed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers found multiple backdoors in popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. Researchers from RedTeam Pentesting discovered multiple backdoors in a popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. 7}' 1432d89. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Please contact your device manufacturer for more information on the patch status about specific devices.” CVE-2023-28540 : Improper Authentication in Data Modem. The flaw is a cryptographic issue in the Data Modem caused by the improper authentication during TLS handshake. ” reads the advisory.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

Robert Leale, the driving force behind the Car Hacking village at DEF CON, joins The Hacker Mind to talk about CANBus basics, and whether we’ll see cars subjected to ransomware attacks. He also shares some tools, books, and website resources that you can use to get started hacking cars yourself.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

A series of vulnerabilities in multiple smart devices manufactured by Nexx can be exploited to remotely open garage doors, and take control of alarms and plugs. Improper Authentication Validation CWE-287 ( CVE-2023–1752 , CVSS3.0: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639 ( CVE-2023–1749 , CVSS3.0:

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