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Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.
out of 10 in severity by the industry-standard Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and impacts all versions of EtherNet/IP Adapter Source Code Stack prior to 2.28, which was released on November 21, 2012. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8 This would leave many running in the wild still today.”
China-linked APT group Mustang Panda employed a custom firmware implant targeting TP-Link routers in targeted attacks since January 2023. MustangPanda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican.
“There is no evidence to support any other firmware versions are vulnerable at this point in time and these findings have been shared with Symantec.” Experts note that the exploit is only effective for authenticated sessions and the affected devices are End of Life (EOL) from 2012. ” concludes Palo Alto Networks.
In real life this usually means they are used as an external hard-drive that can be accessed over an intranet or the Internet. of Netatalk was released in July 2012. Western Digital removed Netatalk from its firmware, released on January 10, 2022. Version 3.0 with a new feature and several security updates. Not just QNAP.
CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . It’s used in different devices from different vendors, the affected devices sharing the firmware are: Netgear Stora. The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.
In both cases, we described new UEFI firmware bootkits that managed to propagate malicious components from the deepest layers of the machine up to Windows’ user-land. The reason is simple: they represent huge software stacks that must support many protocols and have to be internet-facing to operate properly.
This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,
The manufacturer of the mobile device preloads an adware application or a component with the firmware. It could only make its way there via another Trojan that exploited system privileges or as part of the firmware. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012.
” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? And in some sense with the internet, it would be impossible as well because people in Massachusetts would just share the information, you know, via the Internet, and it would be available anyway.
” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? And in some sense with the internet, it would be impossible as well because people in Massachusetts would just share the information, you know, via the Internet, and it would be available anyway.
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