Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. The firmware malware is based on code associated with HackingTeam’s VectorEDK bootkit, with minor changes. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

AMD is going to release patches for a flaw affecting the System Management Mode (SMM) of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Danny Odler, it resides in the AMD’s Mini PC could allow attackers to manipulate secure firmware and execute arbitrary code.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following D-Link router vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2014-100005 Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-600 router (rev.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

The vendor pointed out that DAP-1522 and DIR-816L models that have reached their “end of support” phase, this means that these devices running firmware versions v1.42 (and below) and v12.06.B09 B09 (and below) will receive no security updates remaining vulnerable. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Upon the installation, the malicious app registers itself as a foreground service and extracts an encrypted payload that gathers information about the victim’s device (android_id, manufacturer, model, firmware version, etc.) In this case, reflashing is pointless, so it would be worth considering alternative firmwares for your device.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2020

Researchers devised a technique dubbed BadPower to alter the firmware of fast chargers to cause damage to connected systems or cause the device to catch fire. BadPower consists of corrupting the firmware of fast chargers. “Most BadPower problems can be fixed by updating the device firmware.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the experts, Tenda routers running a firmware version between AC9 to AC18 are vulnerable to the attack. “We recommend that Tenda router users check their firmware and make necessary update.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

The secure boot prevents that malware such as a rootkit will replace the boot loader staying completely invisible and undetectable on a target system. The security feature is part of the UEFI 2.3.1 Errata C specification (or higher), when the Secure Boot is enabled the OS is loaded only after all the firmware checks pass.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

The backdoor accounts in the firmware of 29 FTTH Optical Line Termination (OLT) devices from popular vendor C-Data. The security duo, composed of Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres, disclosed seven vulnerabilities in the firmware of FTTH OLT devices manufactured by C-Data. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

. “Through the course of collaboration with trusted third parties, SonicWall has been made aware of threat actors actively targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running unpatched and end-of-life (EOL) 8.x x firmware in an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 CVE-2020-9054 Multiple ZyXEL network-attached storage (NAS) devices running firmware version 5.2, Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0 A2pvI042j1.d26m

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2020

On February 10, 2020, the Taiwanese manufacturer DrayTek issued a security bulletin to address the vulnerability with the release of the firmware program 1.5.1. On the 6th Feb, we released an updated firmware to address this issue.” ” reads the security bulletin. firmware or later. .”

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second vulnerability addressed by Intel affects SSD DC S4500/S4600 series firmware, it could be exploited by an attacker with physical access for privilege escalation. The flaw has been classified as “medium severity,” it affects firmware versions prior to SCV10150. ” reads the analysis published by Intel. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Flashing Firmware: Flashing BUSSide firmware inside the NodeMCU is quick and easy: # apt-get install esptool # git clone [link] # esptool --port /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x00000 BUSSide/FirmwareImages/*.bin. his majesty, the Firmware). In a couple of minutes you should get extracted the firmware. What do you do?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

A whopping 79 Netgear router models are vulnerable to a severe security flaw that can let hackers take over devices remotely. Nichols discovered that the vulnerability affects 758 different firmware versions that run on 79 Netgear routers. Oldest firmware versions have been released as far back as 2007. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“Several firmware versions have been released, but some of the vulnerabilities have not been fully patched.” ” The vendor has released roughly 10 firmware updates since the vulnerabilities have been reported. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2019

The security advisory published by the company states that the issue impacts YubiKey series devices running versions 4.4.2 of the firmware. “An issue exists in the YubiKey FIPS Series devices with firmware version 4.4.2 there is no released firmware version 4.4.3) that was certified at the end of April.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

A group of security researchers has found thousands of Android apps containing hidden backdoors and blacklists. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. the researchers conclude. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 284 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

. “We were able to find the presence of a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in a piece of open source software that Avaya likely copied and modified 10 years ago, and then failed to apply subsequent security patches to.” Avaya addressed the issue with the release of new firmware on June 25. Only the H.323

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

This week, firmware security company Eclypsium reported that billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue (CVE-2020-10713), dubbed BootHole , that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The security firm revealed that threat actors were exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49897 (CVSS score 8.0) that impacted several routers, including Future X Communications (FXC) AE1021 and AE1021PE wall routers, running firmware versions 2.0.9 released June 21, 2014). and earlier. and earlier (5.0.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Searching online the expert first found an encrypted firmware, he found on a forum a Portable ROM Dumper , (a custom firmware update file that once loaded, dumps the memory of the camera into the SD Card) that allowed him to dump the camera’s firmware and load it into his disassembler (IDA Pro). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The Siemens S7 is considered one of the most secure controllers in the industry, it is used in power plants, traffic lights, water pumps, building control, production lines, aviation systems, and many other critical infrastructures. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

The company has already fixed the issues with the release of firmware versions 1.2.2.S0, “The industrial managed switch series 852 from WAGO is affected by multiple vulnerabilities such as old software components embedded in the firmware. ” reads the security advisory. ” reads the security advisory.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

The company published a list of security advisories to inform its customers of the vulnerabilities in its products. Some of the issues also affected third-party components, including OpenSSL, Intel firmware, Bouncy Castle, Java SE, Apache software, and others. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Juniper).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The bridge discovers the hacker-controlled bulb with updated firmware, and the user adds it back onto their network. The company released firmware p atches for the device in January. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

“A use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in FortiSIEM may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain SSH access to the supervisor as the restricted user “tunneluser” by leveraging knowledge of the private key from another installation or a firmware image.” reads the advisory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 “One of the screenshots seems to consist of LG Electronics official firmware or software update releases that assist their hardware products to work more efficiently.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues Cyble.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Evdokimov discovered the wiretapping equipment on April 2018 and since June 2018 he worked with ISPs to secure the SORM equipment. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues Meduza. billion rubles ($154.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2020

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

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Recently QNAP published a security advisory urging its customers to update the firmware and apps installed on their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to prevent AgeLocker ransomware infections. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The application is updated. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

The first Darkhotel espionage campaign was spotted by experts at Kaspersky Lab in late 2014, according to the researchers the APT group has been around for nearly a decade while targeting selected corporate executives traveling abroad. . Sangfor plans to release a security patched within tomorrow. are vulnerable. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

pw has been registered and abandoned by several parties since 2014, but the most recent registration data available through DomainTools.com shows it was registered in March 2020 to someone in Krasnodar, Russia with the email address edgard011012@gmail.com. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The firewall manufacturer offered a firmware update to address the issue, then the entity first tested the patch on a firewall within a non-critical environment, then after verifying that no problems were observed, the entity deployed the firmware patch at an operational generation site. ” continues the document.

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