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White hat hackers gained access more than 150,000 surveillance cameras

Security Affairs

A group of hackers claimed to have compromised more than 150,000 surveillance cameras at banks, jails, schools, and prominent companies like Tesla and Equinox. Hackers also posted images captured from the hacked surveillance video on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag. SecurityAffairs – hacking, surveillance cameras).

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

The Last Watchdog

What does Chinese tech giant Huawei have in common with the precocious kid next door who knows how to hack his favorite video game? 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.

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Second-ever UEFI rootkit used in North Korea-themed attacks

Security Affairs

A China-linked threat actor used UEFI malware based on code from Hacking Team in attacks aimed at organizations with an interest in North Korea. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a UEFI malware that was involved in attacks on organizations with an interest in North Korea.

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JekyllBot:5 flaws allow hacking TUG autonomous mobile robots in hospitals

Security Affairs

Researchers discovered five vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack hospital Aethon’s TUG autonomous mobile robots. Cynerio ethically disclosed the issues to Aethon and the vendor addressed it with the release of firmware updates. SecurityAffairs – hacking, TUG autonomous mobile robots). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Top 10 Malware Strains of 2021

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing details on the top malware strains of 2021. The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware.

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Experts observed for the first time FinFisher infections involving usage of a UEFI bootkit

Security Affairs

Experts spotted a new variant of the FinFisher surveillance spyware that is able to hijack and replace the Windows UEFI bootloader to infect Windows machines. ” Unlike previous FinSpy versions, the new samples leverage two components to prevent malware analysis, a non-persistent pre-validator and a post-validator.

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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? SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). and Blackmatter ransomware U.S. and Blackmatter ransomware U.S. and Blackmatter ransomware U.S.