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SHARED INTEL: How ‘memory attacks’ and ‘firmware spoilage’ circumvent perimeter defenses

The Last Watchdog

Related: Ransomware remains a scourge The former has been accused of placing hidden backdoors in the firmware of equipment distributed to smaller telecom companies all across the U.S. These happen to represent two prime examples of cyber attack vectors that continue to get largely overlooked by traditional cybersecurity defenses. “And

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Industrial Switches from different Vendors Impaired by Similar Exposures

Hacker Combat

Industrial switches are made using universal firmware developed by Korenix Technology, a leading provider for industrial networking solutions based in Taiwan. SEC Consult , a cyber-security consultancy based in Austria, was the first to discover these exposures. Malicious firmware and bootloader uploads are possible too.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 376 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

increased rewards for info on North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million Threat actors leverages DLL-SideLoading to spread Qakbot malware Zero Day attacks target online stores using PrestaShop? and Blackmatter ransomware U.S. and Blackmatter ransomware U.S.

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Episode 167: Made in America? Trade Tensions highlight Supply Chain Risk

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military Episode 165: Oh, Canada! Independent Security Researchers Feel the Chill Up North Episode 162: Have We missed Electric Grid Cyber Attacks for Years? Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – News of the week

Security Affairs

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GUEST ESSAY: The many ways your supply chain is exposing your company to a cyber attack

The Last Watchdog

Then there are firmware developers, transport agencies, testing facilities, and security evaluation agencies that handle the device before it is sent to the corporate client. TCU’s capabilities encompass a depth and breadth of systems analysis and cutting-edge security management that locates and contains attacks. Threat detection.

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ETHERLED: Air-Gapped Systems Can Send Signals via Network Card LEDs

SecureWorld News

Mordechai Guri, the head of research and development at the Cyber Security Research Center in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, named the method ETHERLED and recently disclosed his findings. If malware were installed on the device, it could control the LEDs by blinking and changing colors with firmware commands.