eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post. The primary goal of all this malware is to compromise the devices and systems, pull them into a botnet and use them for distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks, Maganu wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a recent blog post , the researchers said the bad actors are looking to leverage a path traversal vulnerability that could affect millions of home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use the same code base and are manufactured by at least 17 vendors. A Pattern of Exploits.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

“Although Xiongmai had seven months notice, they have not fixed any of the issues,” the researchers wrote in a blog post published today. In fact, the researchers found it was trivial to set up a system that mimics the XMEye cloud and push malicious firmware updates to any device.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). As part of this process, the actor abused a legitimate blog service to host a malicious script with an encoded format.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware. Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Targeted attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It also has different DDoS functionality. 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.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the potential impact of IoT malware on the public sector — a story of innovation, risk, and the need for resilience. These families are a particularly formidable threat to the public sector — in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

DDoS attacks : these IoT security breaches in an enterprise environment are some of the most harmful as they can shut down the entire enterprise. . Secure Firmware Updates Are a Necessity for Resilient IoT Deployments. Related posts. Streamlining IoT and Edge Security for Machine Identities [Venafi + Device Authority]. UTM Medium.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

Compromised devices can be leveraged as part of a botnet or can contribute to a DDoS attack which can further hinder an organization. Secure IoT firmware and authenticated devices offer benefits that extend to the entire healthcare ecosystem. How to secure healthcare IoT. UTM Medium. UTM Source. UTM Campaign. Recommended-Resources.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Throughout the year, we’ve covered the most interesting of these attacks on our blog. For instance, one recent attack observed in this area was a DDoS attack targeting Israel’s credit card payment system. For instance, this year we reported a 25% rise in APT attack detections observed from January to June.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Most of the observed attacks were crowdsourced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and data destruction operations. As you can see in the example below, in 2014 some threat actors preferred internet relay chats (IRCs) to organize DDoS attacks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. I wrote a blog post about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. In December we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanning technology. These changes allowed the attackers to intercept the original flow of the firmware code and have it executed alongside a sophisticated infection chain.

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