Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2021

FireEye Mandiant researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Kalay cloud platform that exposes millions of IoT devices to attacks. The flaw could be easily exploited by a remote attacker to take over an IoT device, the only info needed for the attack is the Kalay unique identifier (UID) of the targeted user.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Authorities in Thailand are investigating a cyber attack that resulted in the broadcast of surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south. The incident raises the question of the security of IoT devices, smart devices are under incessant attacks of hackers and botnet. Iran, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Security Affairs – Xiongmai, hacking ). The flaws could be exploited to spy on camera feeds of unaware users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-32941 can be exploited by an attacker to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a provider of home and business security solutions.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Naked Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

Home automation. Internet of Things. Cloud management. And a security bug that could let other people watch you online.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

The Planet WGS-804HPT industrial switch is used in building and home automation networks to provide connectivity of Internet of things (IoT) devices, IP surveillance cameras, and wireless LAN network applications. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,IOT)

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2023

. “”We’re far away from the totalitarianism of 1984,” George Orwell’s novel about a society under total surveillance, Dupond-Moretti said. ” The police can use multiple means to gather data from the suspects’ devices, including laptops, mobile phones, car entertainment systems, and other IoT objects.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. Swiss hacker and member of the hacking collective “APT-69420 Arson Cats,” Tillie Kottmann, claimed credit for the Verkada hack.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

IoT vulnerabilities turned the remote into a listening device, researchers found, which impacted 18 million Xfinity customers.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. At its peak, Mirai enslaved over 600,000 vulnerable IoT devices, according to our measurements. OVH DDoS attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

Researchers discovered five vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack hospital Aethon’s TUG autonomous mobile robots. SecurityAffairs – hacking, TUG autonomous mobile robots). The post JekyllBot:5 flaws allow hacking TUG autonomous mobile robots in hospitals appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. Now a hacking group says they accessed thousands of live feeds from Verkada's cameras around the world. The Verkada camera hack: what happened?

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar.

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Threatpost

MARCH 10, 2021

Surveillance footage from companies such as Tesla as well as hospitals, prisons, police departments and schools was accessed in the hack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? Funny thing.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? Funny thing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

. “ This type of research activity is part of the Checkmarx Security Research Team’s ongoing efforts to drive the necessary changes in software security practices among vendors that manufacture consumer-based smartphones and IoT devices, while bringing more security awareness amid the consumers who purchase and use them.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Stolen email credentials are being used to hijack home surveillance devices, such as Ring, to call police with a fake emergency, then watch the chaos unfold.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. SecurityAffairs – Guardzilla, IoT). ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

hacked, data of 600k users available for sale Updated: Italian email provider Email.it supports the Secure Boot Fake Cisco ‘Critical Update used in phishing campaign to steal WebEx credentials Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi SFO discloses data breach following the hack of 2 of its websites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

During the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest, participants hacked Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 devices earning more than $225,000. The novelty for this Pwn2Own edition was the creation of a specific session for IoT devices. Security Affairs – Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 286 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2024

EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff. The post Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again Cisco fixed critical RCE bug in ClamAV Open-Source Antivirus engine CISA adds Cacti, Office, Windows (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

According to the alert issued by the FBI, the swatters have been hijacking smart devices such as video and audio capable home surveillance devices. “Recently, offenders have been using victims’ smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America. Jessica Alba ‘s Twitter account hacked, it posted racist and homophobic messages. Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw. Hacking avionics systems through the CAN bus. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Experts observed multiple botnets exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in DVRs for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN. Botnet operators are exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN-. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LILIN).

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2025

Currently in orbit around Earth are more than 12,000 active satellites, forming a vast web of data pipelines, IoT devices, and AI-driven ground stations that rivals any terrestrial datacenter in complexity and density. Forget spaceship battles and photon torpedoesthe real battle among the stars is cyber.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Security researcher and IoT hacker Dennis Giese talks about his mission to liberate robot vacuums from the control of their manufacturers, letting owners tinker with their own devices and - importantly - control the data they collect about our most intimate surroundings. Forget the IoT. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., 5G tech will make the IoT a greater part of our everyday lives. Conclusion.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Firmware used in up to 800,000 CCTV cameras open to attack thanks to buffer overflow zero-day bug.

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