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Exposed security cameras in Israel and Palestine pose significant risks

Security Affairs

Many poorly configured security cameras are exposed to hacktivists in Israel and Palestine, placing the owners using them and the people around them at substantial risk. While this communication system is useful for transferring real-time data, it offers neither encryption nor lockout mechanisms against password-guessing.

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"In our modern world, countless applications rely on radio frequency elements" - an Interview with Larbi Ouiyzme

Pen Test

Criminals may use hijacked drones for illegal surveillance, smuggling, or even as weapons. Countermeasures: To prevent drone signal hijacking, drone manufacturers and operators can implement encryption and authentication mechanisms for RF communication. It offers strong encryption and is considered secure for most applications.

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A bowl full of security problems: Examining the vulnerabilities of smart pet feeders

SecureList

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. We later managed to extract the firmware from the EEPROM for further static reverse engineering. Further hardware analysis of the circuit board helped us identify chips.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 419 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. iOS devices may not be the only targets: other devices and operating systems could also face risks. The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

It’s not often we observe a large-scale attack by APT threat actors – they usually avoid such attacks because they are too ‘noisy’ and risk drawing attention to the campaign. LuminousMoth is an exception. We observed a high number of infections; although we think the campaign was aimed at a few targets of interest.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

So if you're looking at a typical enterprise network enterprise endpoint device, then your primary threats are going to be around confidentiality of data, those are going to be the most severe threats that you tend to look at or severe risks that you tend to look at. In some cases the artists simply don't have the resources to be updated.

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