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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The number of infected devices is impressive, on 2019-11-30 a trusted security partner in the US informed Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity reported to have observed 1,962,308 unique daily active IPs from the Pink botnet targeting its systems. According to the experts, Pink is the largest botnet they have observed in the last six years.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Mozi botnet accounted for 90% of the IoT network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020, IBM reported. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices. The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. “Cyclops Blink persists on reboot and throughout the legitimate firmware update process.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019. But the NCSC warns that it is likely that Sandworm is capable of compiling the same or very similar malware for other architectures and firmware. All WatchGuard appliances should be updated to the latest version of Fireware OS.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Cashdollar (@_larry0) June 25, 2019. The only way to recover infected devices is to manually reinstall the device’s firmware. pic.twitter.com/gUjWCdSIQO — Ankit Anubhav (@ankit_anubhav) June 25, 2019. pic.twitter.com/Ue661ku0fy — Larry W. ” reported ZDnet. The IP address ( 185[.]162[.]235[.]5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

includes several new flaws, including: Vulnerability Affected software CVE-2017-17105 Zivif PR115-204-P-RS CVE-2019-10655 Grandstream CVE-2020-25223 WebAdmin of Sophos SG UTM CVE-2021-42013 Apache CVE-2022-31137 Roxy-WI CVE-2022-33891 Apache Spark ZSL-2022-5717 MiniDVBLinux. “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1,

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. Many attacks today begin with a targeted phishing attacks to get a toehold inside a network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier. NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50. CVE-2019-19824. CVE-2015-2051.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Mozi is a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet network that was first detected in 2019 and uses the distributed hash table (DHT) system. Many require firmware updates rather than use such tools as yum or apt for patching, adding that users can’t deploy endpoint protection on most of them. Mozi, XorDDoS and Mirai.

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Google Security

MARCH 12, 2021

We've confirmed that this proof-of-concept, or its variants, function across a variety of operating systems, processor architectures, and hardware generations. In 2019, the team responsible for V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine, published a blog post and whitepaper concluding that such attacks can’t be reliably mitigated at the software level.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2019 alone, attacks on IoT devices increased by 300%. Some best practices to secure IoT at the network level include map and monitor all connected devices, use network segmentation to prevent the spread of attacks, ensure your network architecture is secure, and disable any features or services that you aren’t using.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We are lucky to benefit from a very generous sponsorship from Cloudflare since 2019. Kali Blog Recap Since our last release, we did the following blog posts : The great non-free-firmware transition Kali Linux DEI Promise Community Shout-Outs These are people from the public who have helped Kali and the team for the last release.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 15, 2024

History lesson: i386 is a 32-bit CPU architecture, maybe more widely known by the name x86. It was the CPU architecture of the first generations of Intel Pentium, AMD K6, and Athlon. Starting in 2003, a 64-bit version of the x86 architecture appeared, usually named x86-64 (or amd64 in Debian-based Linux distributions).

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. In December we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanning technology.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

The Hewlett Packard (HP) logo is displayed in front of the office complex on October 04, 2019 in Palo Alto, California. Shifts to enable remote working amid the pandemic were done virtually overnight as companies rushed to respond to lockdowns and retrofit IT architectures. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Mirai botnet targets mostly routers and IoT devices, and it supports different architectures including Linux x64, different ARM versions, MIPS, PowerPC, and more. Install security and firmware upgrades from vendors, as soon as possible. 2027881: ET EXPLOIT NETGEAR R7000/R6400 – Command Injection Inbound (CVE-2019-6277).

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

msg VT First Submission 2022-10-25 10:00:00 UTC UNC path 168.205.200.55test (reminder time set to 2019-02-17 19:00) Sent by: 168.205.200.55 For example, this router is typically used by ISPs on the customer side and its firmware provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) accessible directly through a WebUI.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lastly, the pump runs its own custom Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and firmware on a M32C microcontroller. An architecture diagram below helps demonstrates the system layout and design when a pump is present in the docking station. Figure 2: System Architecture. SpaceCom Functions and Software Components.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Additionally, FortiNAC can enforce company policies on device patching and firmware version. This article was originally written by Drew Robb on May 7, 2019, and updated by Chad Kime on March 31, 2023. FortiNAC is integrated with FortiGate and other Fortinet products.

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Kali Linux

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

We are pleased to announce that our third release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.3, We also noticed some packages failed to build on certain ARM architectures, which has now been fixed (allowing for more tools to be used on different platforms!). 2kali1 (2019-08-22) root@kali:~# root@kali:~# uname -r 5.2.0-kali2-amd64

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

We are incredibly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, RaspberryPi kernel was updated to 4.19.81, and the firmware package was updated to include the eeprom updates for the RaspberryPi 4. 3kali1 (2019-11-20) root@kali:~# root@kali:~# uname -r 5.3.0-kali2-amd64 Starting in 2020.1,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

New applications no longer use TDES, but TDES-encrypted data can be found in legacy environments and Microsoft only retired 3DES from use within Office 365 in 2019. Still, research remains in early stages, so initial standards remain in draft form and a full mitigation architecture for federal agencies isn’t expected until the 2030s.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There was, for example, a variant of MRI in the fall of 2019 that went after Android TVs. Quemu enables me to emulate some of the not common CPU architectures like MIPS powerPC or MIPS cell. Vamosi: The devices themselves are becoming less and less expensive, Yay, but would you rather upgrade the firmware on a toothbrush, probably not.

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