Penetration Testing

AUGUST 26, 2019

ME Analyzer is a tool which parses Intel Engine firmware images from the Converged Security Management Engine, Converged Security Trusted Execution Engine, Converged Security Server Platform Services, Management Engine, Trusted Execution Engine & Server... The post ME Analyzer v1.304.4

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Sony Playstation 5 is the latest example: Hackers may have just made some big strides towards possibly jailbreaking the PlayStation 5 over the weekend, with the hacking group Fail0verflow claiming to have managed to obtain PS5 root keys allowing them to decrypt the console’s firmware. […].

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Netgear N300 MIPS firmware image. Binary Ninja (or other disassembler) and a strong knowledge of reverse engineering. What's Special about Firmware? Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Extracting Firmware.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Netgear N300 MIPS firmware image. Binary Ninja (or other disassembler) and a strong knowledge of reverse engineering. What's Special about Firmware? Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Extracting Firmware.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ten years after it was first unveiled, the powerful firmware analysis platform Ofrak is now available to anyone.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Interesting research: " Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs) ": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by reverse engineering their firmware. EDITED TO ADD: The NSA is known to attack firmware of SSDs.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 29, 2019

Come to the August event and learn how Intel's Converged Security and Manageability Engine has been fine-tuned to guard against low-level firmware attacks.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Firmware security firm Eclypsium said the two shortcomings were held back until now to provide AMI additional time to engineer appropriate mitigations. The issues, collectively

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Multiple security weaknesses have been disclosed in MediaTek system-on-chips (SoCs) that could have enabled a threat actor to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the firmware of the audio processor, effectively allowing the attackers to carry out a "massive eavesdrop campaign" without the users' knowledge.

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The Hacker News

JULY 18, 2022

Industrial engineers and operators are the target of a new campaign that leverages password cracking software to seize control of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and co-opt the machines to a botnet.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As part of our efforts to harden firmware on Android devices , we are increasingly using Rust in these bare-metal environments too. To that end, we have rewritten the Android Virtualization Framework’s protected VM (pVM) firmware in Rust to provide a memory safe foundation for the pVM root of trust.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware gang suggests the group has been researching and developing code to compromise the Intel Management Engine (Intel ME), the out-of-band management functionality built into Intel chipsets. To read this article in full, please click here

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Fa i l0verflow , the hacking group notorious for breaking Playstation consoles, and Andy “TheFlow” Nguyen , a security engineer at Google and widely known in the Playstation Vita scene, both tweeted samplings of their successful PS5 hacks. A root key is used to decrypt and reverse engineer the console’s firmware.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Intel says its engineers are partnering with security researchers to hunt for vulnerabilities in firmware, GPUs, hypervisors, chipsets, and other products in a new expansion to its bug bounty program. [.].

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nonetheless, all but one vendor spread several private keys in almost all firmware images. Engineering teams come together, design and build the router, and then disperse. There’s often no one around to write patches, and most of the time router firmware isn’t even patchable.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We are almost done reverse-engineering every aspect of this attack chain, and we will be releasing a series of articles next year detailing each vulnerability and how it was exploited. Because this feature is not used by the firmware, we have no idea how attackers would know how to use it. We covered these stages in our previous posts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The flaws were discovered by Google security engineer Gynvael Coldwind, Netgear addressed then early this month. NETGEAR urge its customers using the following products to download the latest firmware: GC108P fixed in firmware version 1.0.8.2 GC108PP fixed in firmware version 1.0.8.2 and Draconian Fear (CVSS score: 7.8).

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The flaws, which were discovered and reported to Netgear by Google security engineer Gynvael Coldwind, impact the following models - GC108P (fixed in firmware

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

A security researcher discovered that the IoT search engine ZoomEye has cached login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua DVRs. The IoT search engine ZoomEye has cached login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua DVRs, the discovery was made by security researcher Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“It is found that our wireless products, FLEXLAN FX3000/2000 series, have a firmware vulnerability. The CVE–2022–36158 flaw is a hidden system command web page that was discovered performing reverse engineering of the firmware used by the device. ” reads the advisory published by Contec.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The only way to protect against BLURtooth attacks is to control the environment in which Bluetooth devices are paired, in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, or pairings with rogue devices carried out via social engineering (tricking the human operator). However, patches are expected to be available at one point.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

A group of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. A team of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. debugging connectors. “A special USB 3.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Dragos researchers uncovered a small-scale campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. During a routine vulnerability assessment, Dragos researchers discovered a campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. ” reads the advisory published by Dragos.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. It was looking like this problem was behind us.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

The CVE-2019-0090 vulnerability affects the firmware running on the ROM of the Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Intel CSME is responsible for initial authentication of Intel-based systems by loading and verifying all other firmware for modern platforms.” x, SPS_E3_05.00.04.027.0.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Siemens advises all customers to upgrade both the firmware of the impacted devices as well as the TIA Portal software that engineers use to communicate with them and deploy their programs.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I also looked at custom firmware and soldering and why, to my mind, that was a path I didn't need to go down at this time. Let's got through the options: Firmware Patching I'll start with the devices themselves and pose a question to you: can you remember the last time you patched the firmware in your light globes? Or vibrator.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2022

QNAP forces its customers to update the firmware of their Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to protect against the DeadBolt ransomware. QNAP forced the firmware update for its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to protect its customers against the DeadBolt ransomware. ” states the vendor.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

TL;DR The Fastboot protocol can often have hidden commands Those commands can do interesting things Conventionally they’re found by reverse engineering Can’t find a copy of the firmware? For that research we had access to the OTA firmware for the device and could reverse engineer any commands out of the abl partition.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

January 11, 2024 Smart Thermostat from Bosch Puts Offices in Danger Type of vulnerability: Malicious commands sent from an attacker to the thermostat, including potentially replacing firmware with rogue code. According to Bitdefender, the thermostat does not validate the authenticity of a new firmware update.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It could be quite easy for threat actors in the wild to find exposed Dahua devices using a search engine like Shodan and attempt to hack them using the available PoC code. In order to protect Dahua devices, users have to install the latest firmware version. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Conclusion, always do your homework before putting your hands on the target: FCC database, Google, and Chinese search engines are your best friend when doing a hardware hacking research! This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. known-plaintext attack). And indeed it was!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

This information is being shared as part of a coordinated disclosure with ICS-CERT, which published advisory ICSA-21-238-02 , and with the vendor, Annke, which has released firmware that fixes the issue.” The experts performed reverse engineering of the firmware to fully unrestricted SSH access.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2022

x firmware in MySonicWall downloads section for TZ, NSA and SOHO platforms. The problem is caused by a bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine. FIP-FS is the anti-malware scanning engine used by Microsoft to protect its users, it was used starting with Exchange Server 2013. x should upgrade to the latest Junk Store 7.6.9.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

The flaw could theoretically be remotely exploited from the web browser, but demonstrating successful attacks “via web browsers requires additional research and engineering efforts.” ” Intel informed customers that is releasing firmware updates to address the vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Flashing Firmware: Flashing BUSSide firmware inside the NodeMCU is quick and easy: # apt-get install esptool # git clone [link] # esptool --port /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x00000 BUSSide/FirmwareImages/*.bin. his majesty, the Firmware). In a couple of minutes you should get extracted the firmware. What do you do?

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