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. self-propagating worm.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. DNS BIND information disclosure attempts were also commonly encountered. In the Credential Access tactic, credential dumping attacks appear to be targeting routers and IoT devices such as CCTV cameras.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Particularly in IoT, where we find ourselves using MQTT and other ancient protocols, not for what they were originally designed for, but for our immediate need for lightweight communications among devices. Then in 2014, the Linux foundation embarked on a process to fuzz open source. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Particularly in IoT, where we find ourselves using MMQT and other ancient protocols, not for what they were originally designed for, but for our immediate need for lightweight communications among devices. Then in 2014, the Linux foundation embarked on a process to fuzz open source. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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