The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. I had an eye-opening conversation about all of this with Steve Hanna , distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor manufacturer based in Neubiberg, Germany.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. We later managed to extract the firmware from the EEPROM for further static reverse engineering.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These devices are installed in airplanes to offer internet connectivity to the passengers, the above vulnerabilities can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the inflight entertainment system and potentially conduct other malicious activities. ” reads the advisory published by Contec.

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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. “Firmware Update 8.2B

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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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. Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet.

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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

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

MAY 16, 2023

The researchers discovered eight vulnerabilities that impact thousands of internet-connected devices worldwide. The experts demonstrated multiple attack vectors, including the exploitation of flaws in internet-exposed services, cloud account takeover, and the exploitation of flaws in the cloud infrastructure. through 00.07.03.4

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

.” Experts used the search engines for Internet-connected devices, like Shodan.io, to search for ENIP-compatible internet-facing devices and discovered more than 8,000 systems exposed online. This would leave many running in the wild still today.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

Microsoft experts have disclosed a series of vulnerabilities in the firmware of Netgear routers which could lead to data leaks and full system takeover. “In our research, we unpacked the router firmware and found three vulnerabilities that can be reliably exploited.” html) and the firmware image itself (.chk

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

today detected the security threat DEADBOLT leveraging exploitation of Photo Station vulnerability to encrypt QNAP NAS that are directly connected to the Internet. “We strongly urge that their QNAP NAS should not be directly connected to the Internet. . “QNAP Systems, Inc. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2022

Querying the Shodan search engine , Bertin discovered more than 117 devices connected to the internet located in Russia that are running with default credentials. The expert explained that anyone can access the Internet-facing systems and perform changes and actions as “admin” only.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is asking users to install the latest update on their NAS devices and avoid exposing them on the Internet. “QNAP urges all NAS users to check and update QTS to the latest version as soon as possible, and avoid exposing their NAS to the Internet.” and QTS 4.4.1. “QNAP® Systems, Inc.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2022

Below is the list of vulnerable products and related patches: Affected model Affected firmware version Patch availability USG FLEX 100(W), 200, 500, 700 ZLD V5.00 According to Rapid 7, there are more than 15,000 internet-facing vulnerable systems tracked by the Shodan search engine. Commands are executed as the nobody user.”

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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

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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

Nilsen, who holds a doctorate in physics as well as advanced degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, is a strong advocate for the decentralized Internet and supports the advancement of innovative analog and digital methods to address the growing threat of cyberattacks. About the X-PHY ®.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

. “Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MoFi4500 router, an OpenWRT based wireless router that provides Internet access via LTE. “Several firmware versions have been released, but some of the vulnerabilities have not been fully patched.” ” continues the report.

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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

Unlike our computer and phones, these systems are designed and produced at a lower profit margin with less engineering expertise. The second is that some of the patches require updating the computer's firmware. The first is that these vulnerabilities affect embedded computers in consumer devices. It also requires more coordination.

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. There are several reasons why the Internet of Things is such a threat to our digital security.

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Google Security

AUGUST 15, 2023

Elie Bursztein, cybersecurity and AI research director, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, software engineer As part of our effort to deploy quantum resistant cryptography, we are happy to announce the release of the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of OpenSK, our open source security key firmware.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Air-gapping a device or system is thought of as a way to isolate your device from the internet, or other public-facing networks, so that it is highly secure and untouchable to threat actors. If malware were installed on the device, it could control the LEDs by blinking and changing colors with firmware commands.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

Below is the list of vulnerable products and related patches: AFFECTED MODEL AFFECTED FIRMWARE VERSION PATCH AVAILABILITY USG FLEX 100(W), 200, 500, 700 ZLD V5.00 According to Rapid 7, there are more than 15,000 internet-facing vulnerable systems tracked by the Shodan search engine. Commands are executed as the nobody user.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The fix: ASUS released firmware updates to address the vulnerabilities. Sending phishing emails to engineers can be used as an exploitation technique to get them to import malicious configuration files ( CVE-2023-31171 ), which results in arbitrary code execution. 31 and updated Sept.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

” For instance, educational robots that connect to the internet and support video calls. ” Interactive features include gaming and educational applications for children, a voice assistant, internet access and connection to the parent app for smartphones. In other words, this is a “tablet on wheels.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. 11 this year, now would be a good time to care of that.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections Public Internet Threats If your enterprise network is connected to the public internet, every single threat on the internet can render your business vulnerable too. These threaten enterprise networks because malicious traffic from the internet can travel between networks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. Always remember. Never trust.

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Google Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Posted by Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Software Engineer, Jean-Michel Picod, Software Engineer and Elie Bursztein, Security and Anti-abuse Research Lead Security keys and your phone’s built-in security keys are reshaping the way users authenticate online. So, today we are releasing a new open source security key test suite.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

As public and private sector entities gradually march toward 5G, the financial burden of piling security standards could force some Internet of Things device manufacturers to walk away from highly regulated markets like defense. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 , which was enacted Dec. chapter of AFCEA.

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