The Last Watchdog
JUNE 10, 2019
Locking down firmware. Starks Federal Communications Commission member Geoffrey Starks recently alluded to the possibility that China may have secretly coded the firmware in Huawei’s equipment to support cyber espionage and cyber infrastructure attacks. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
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. Firmware is on everything from hard drives, motherboards and routers to office printers and smart medical devices. The Chinese are all over this.
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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. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
In a detailed post on Github , security researcher Watchful_IP describes how he found that the majority of the recent camera product ranges of Hikvision cameras are susceptible to a critical, unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, even with the latest firmware. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.,
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. And while cosmetic security measures are in place, security leaders have long warned that technologies produced by Chinese companies can be exploited by China’s government. Surge in internet-facing cameras. Most insecure brands.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Google Threat Analysis Group and Google Project Zero experts focus on attacks carried out by nation-state actors or surveillance firms, this means that one of these threat actors may be behind the exploitation of the Qualcomm flaws. WLAN Firmware Internal CVE-2023-24855 : Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Modem.
Pen Test
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Criminals may use hijacked drones for illegal surveillance, smuggling, or even as weapons. Detection and Prevention: Security professionals and organizations are developing technologies to detect and mitigate drone signal hijacking, including RF signal analysis and drone detection systems.
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