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Router Security

Schneier on Security

Nonetheless, all but one vendor spread several private keys in almost all firmware images. was released in October 2010. There’s often no one around to write patches, and most of the time router firmware isn’t even patchable. Anyhow, they are used quite rarely by most vendors except the NX feature.

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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

Security Affairs

US and Japanese authorities warn that a China-linked APT BlackTech planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to hack the businesses in both countries. BlackTech is a Chinese APT group that has been active since at least 2010 and that known for conducting cyber espionage campaigns in Asia aimed at entities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received its final firmware update in 2015. “The vulnerability report CVE-2018-18472 affects My Book Live devices originally introduced to the market between 2010 and 2012,” reads a reply from Western Digital that Wizcase posted to its blog.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Patching and vulnerability management Apply timely security updates to operating systems, software, and firmware. Key findings from the advisory The advisory highlights the rapid and efficient attack lifecycle of Ghost ransomware, with some incidents seeing full encryption within a single day.

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Devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo used outdated OpenSSL versions

Security Affairs

The researchers discovered the issue by analyzing firmware images used devices from the above manufacturers. The experts analyzed one of the core frameworks EDKII used as a part of any UEFI firmware which has its own submodule and wrapper over the OpenSSL library ( OpensslLib ) in the CryptoPkg component. that dates back to 2009.

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Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks

Malwarebytes

This web server is present in Arris firmware which can be found in several router models. last official release 2010) has a path traversal vulnerability. Unfortunately the Arris firmware is based on the vulnerable version of muhttpd. muhttpd web server. The muhttpd server 1.1.5 The latest release of muhttpd is version 1.1.7

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MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

Security Affairs

.” Recently, US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warned of a China-linked APT, tracked as BlackTech (aka Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio Panda), that planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to access multinational companies’ networks.