Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Researchers Radek Domanski and Pedro Ribeiro originally planned to present their findings at the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Tokyo last year. That update effectively nullified their chances at competing in Pwn2Own, which requires exploits to work against the latest firmware or software supported by the targeted device.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Multiple vulnerabilities in CyberPower PowerPanel Enterprise DCIM platform and Dataprobe PDU could expose data centers to hacking. This platform serves as an integrated hub of information and control for all interconnected devices. of PowerPanel Enterprise software and version 1.44.08042023 of the Dataprobe iBoot PDU firmware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2021

Network equipment vendor D-Link has released a firmware hotfix to fix multiple vulnerabilities in the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router. Network equipment vendor D-Link has released a firmware hotfix to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. “Firmware version 4.60

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ukrainian hacking group Blackjack used a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet in attacks against Russian infrastructure. The website ruexfil.com provided detailed information about the attacks against Moscollector, the hackers also published screenshots of monitoring systems, servers, and databases they claim to have compromised.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Researchers discovered multiple high-risk vulnerabilities affecting the latest firmware version for the Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 router. Researchers from Tenable have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the latest firmware version (version 1.0.4.120) of the popular Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 WiFi router. Vendor supplies information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2023

Researchers from firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered a suspected backdoor-like behavior within Gigabyte systems. The experts discovered that the firmware in Gigabyte systems drops and executes a Windows native executable during the system startup process. The executable resides in a UEFI firmware volume.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

All the affected models have a patched firmware available for download on the vendor’s website.” An attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying carefully crafted username and/or password as base64 encoded strings inside the fields aa and ab of the login page. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DrayTek Vigor).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Netgear has released firmware updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in more than a dozen of its smart switches used on businesses. The flaws affected multiple products including the following smart switches, below is the list of the impacted devices and related firmware fixes: GC108P fixed in firmware version 1.0.8.2

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

x firmware in an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials.” “The exploitation targets a known vulnerability that has been patched in newer versions of firmware.” The network equipment vendor is now urging customers to update the firmware of their devices as soon as possible. “If 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Canon warns that sensitive information on the Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the memories of home and office/large format inkjet printers may not be deleted by the usual initialization process. Set up strong authentication mechanisms, such as complex passwords or use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for printer access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Threat actors are attempting to hack Zyxel devices exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2020-29583, security researchers warn. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

New Firmware Flaws Resurrect Cold Boot Attacks. A team of security researchers demonstrated that the firmware running on nearly all modern computers is vulnerable to cold boot attacks. encryption keys, passwords) from a running operating system after using a cold reboot to restart the machine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Unlike the D-Link analysis, the researchers has no physical access to the device and attempted to retrieve the password from the config. “The firmware is basically a merge of 3 sections, the LZMA section is the kernel, at 0x148CD6 the root-fs and at 0x90BD36 the www content.” A firmware fix has been released.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2023

The procedures allow administrators to provide device information such as server addresses, account information, and firmware updates. The server is used to provide configurations and firmware updates to the devices. In this scenario, an attacker can act as a rogue server and distribute malicious firmware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The researchers also discovered the update process for the firmware and packages doesn’t rely on digital signature of the code. “Dell advises creating an FTP server using Microsoft IIS (no specific guidance), then giving access to firmware, packages, and INI files accessible through the FTP server. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

ASUS addressed critical vulnerabilities in multiple router models, urging customers to immediately install firmware updates. ASUS is warning customers to update some router models to the latest firmware to address critical vulnerabilities. “Update your router to the latest firmware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link has addressed a critical vulnerability impacting some TP-Link Archer routers that could allow attackers to login without passwords. “In such an event, the victim could lose access to the console and even a shell, and thereby would not be able to re-establish a new password.” ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“It is found that our wireless products, FLEXLAN FX3000/2000 series, have a firmware vulnerability. There are possibilities of data plagiarism, falsification, system destruction, and malicious program execution if this vulnerability was exploited by malicious attackers who can access to this private webpage (with passwords information).”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. All too often, this gives them a false sense of security: when in fact, threat actors can not only access and watch your camera feed but exploit the unsecured device to hack into your network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

Someone can use this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the system, such as usernames and passwords. This information can then be used to reconfigure or disable the alarm system.” “Based on this information, we did a quick investigation to see how popular the system is.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In short, it goes from a newline injection in the password field, through being able to write a file with constant uncontrolled content of 2 (like, one byte 32h), through a DoS and session crafting (which yields an admin web UI user), to an eventual post-auth shell injection (which yields full root).” .” Coldwind explained.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

Malware can carry out a Downfall attack to steal sensitive information like passwords, encryption keys, and private data such as banking details, personal emails, and messages. ” Intel informed customers that is releasing firmware updates to address the vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack. The experts also discovered an undocumented user with the name “default” and password “tluafed.”. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The most common issues discovered by the experts were outdated Linux kernel in the firmware, outdated multimedia and VPN functions, presence of hardcoded credentials, the use of insecure communication protocols and weak default passwords. SecurityAffairs – hacking, routers). ” reads the advisory published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. Passive Recon & OSINT: First of all (even without attempting to open the token) we can immediately notice our best-hardware-hacking-friend: the FCC ID.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Boffins discovered bugs in WiFi chips that can be exploited to extract passwords and manipulate traffic by targeting a device’s Bluetooth component. The WiFi chip encrypts network traffic and holds the current WiFi credentials, thereby providing the attacker with further information.” ” concludes the paper.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Researchers at firmware security firm Eclypsium discovered multiple vulnerabilities referred as USBAnywhere that could be exploited to potentially allow an attacker to take over the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11. ” reads the post published by Eclypsium.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2022

In the case of the Nvidia breach, LAPSUS$ claimed it was mainly after the removal of the lite hast rate (LHR) limitations in all GeForce 30 series firmware—apparently all to help out gamers and the mining community. Hacked back? The passwords and email addresses of some 70k employees were involved.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The analysis of various firmware allowed the researchers to discover the presence of the flawed module in NETGEAR devices (R9000, R7800, RAX200, RAX120, R6230, R6260, RAX40) and some Orbi WiFi Systems (RBR20, RBS20, RBR50, RBS50). . present in the majority of NETGEAR firmware images in our corpus.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

CWE-1191 : On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control – the debug interface (JTAG) might be used to bypass on-chip protection to extract information. CWE-1277 : Firmware Not Updateable – firmware exploitation exposes the victim to a permanent risk without any possibility to patch weaknesses.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The industrial automation giant ABB addressed the flaw with the release of firmware updates on July 14, 2022. “We chose the simplest approach, reading /etc/shadow and using hashcat cracking the root account password (which turned out to be root:root). SecurityAffairs – hacking, ABB Totalflow). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Unlike the D-Link analysis, the researchers has no physical access to the device and attempted to retrieve the password from the config. “The firmware is basically a merge of 3 sections, the LZMA section is the kernel, at 0x148CD6 the root-fs and at 0x90BD36 the www content.” A firmware fix has been released.

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