Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A China-linked threat actor used UEFI malware based on code from Hacking Team in attacks aimed at organizations with an interest in North Korea. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Example of available open printers on a single IoT search engine (Shodan.io): As we can see, many users and organizations still use internet-connected devices without thinking about security, installing firmware updates, or taking into account the implications of leaving their devices publicly accessible. Change the default password.

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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 -->. SecurityAffairs – Smart Light Bulbs, hacking).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The US National Security Agency (NSA) published guidance on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot customization. The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has published guidance on how the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot feature that can be customized organizations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2019

The group of researchers presented called “ wattet.fail ” firmware, side-channel, microcontroller and supply-chain attacks that impact most popular hardware-based cryptocurrency wallets, including Trezor One, Ledger Nano S, and Ledger Blue. “The Hacking the Supply Chain. Hacking the Bootloader. Side-channel Attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. This FTP server can be accessed with hardcoded credentials that are embedded in the firmware of the AP. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

The CVE-2019-0090 vulnerability affects the firmware running on the ROM of the Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Intel CSME is responsible for initial authentication of Intel-based systems by loading and verifying all other firmware for modern platforms.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2019-0090).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

Anguelkov confirmed that two of those vulnerabilities affect both in the Linux kernel and firmware of affected Broadcom chips. Below the details for the flaws: Vulnerabilities in the open source brcmfmac driver: • CVE-2019-9503 : If the brcmfmac driver receives the firmware event frame from the host, the appropriate handler is called.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Successfully dumped the smartlock’s firmware. And after having successfully dumped the firmware we can proceed at extracting some valuable evidences for the forensics case. But it saves my time while hacking (I)IoT targets. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack. ” Experts also discovered that it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the device through a firmware update. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

PASTA is an open-source testing platform specifically designed for car hacking, it was developed to help experts to test cyber security features of modern vehicles. The PASTA car hacking tool is contained in an 8 kg portable briefcase, experts highlighted the delay of the automotive industry in developing cyber security for modern cars.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hackers target QNAP NAS devices running multiple firmware versions vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) flaw addressed by the vendor 3 years ago. QNAP addressed the vulnerability with the release of firmware version 4.3.3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. on July 21, 2017.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Lenovo confirmed that firmware versions 4.1.402.34662 and earlier are vulnerable, users have to download firmware version 4.1.404.34716 (or later). The company suggests removing any public shares and using the device only on trusted networks in case it is not possible to immediately update the firmware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It’s not immediately clear which security vulnerabilities led to these estimated 250,000 MikroTik routers getting hacked by Meris. “The largest share belongs to the version of firmware previous to the current stable one.” ” Qrator’s breakdown of Meris-infected MikroTik devices by operating system version.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The hardware of the terminals is equipped with Shenzen technology, while the firmware is based on BusyBox Linux Debian. . Automatic updates are available via Wi-Fi and can be installed by setting IoT radio devices back to factory settings and downloading the latest firmware version. . SecurityAffairs – IoT radio devices, hacking). .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting the computer hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system. ” states CERT/CC. . ” states CERT/CC.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

While driving to work I have seen the advertisement of a Fireworks Festival that’s going to happen in the city. What about hacking Radio Blasting Systems? Which means, we can easily bruteforce and thus exhaust the space between them with the main WHID Elite Firmware. SecurityAffairs – Radio Blasting Systems , hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

Researchers discovered two serious flaws, QualPwn bugs, in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC WLAN firmware that could be exploited to hack Android device over the air. The second flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-10540, is a buffer overflow issue that affects the Qualcomm WLAN and modem firmware that ships with Qualcomm chips.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Researchers at firmware security firm Eclypsium discovered multiple vulnerabilities referred as USBAnywhere that could be exploited to potentially allow an attacker to take over the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11. ” reads the post published by Eclypsium.

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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 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, D-Link). 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

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. In September 2018, a user by the name “ ципа ” (phonetically “ Zipper ” in Russian) registered on the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam using the edgard0111012@gmail.com address.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FTTH devices ).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Netlab shared its findings with LILIN on January 19, 2020, and the vendor addressed the issues with the release of the firmware update (version 2.0b60_20200207). The new firmware released by the vendors validated the hostname passed as input to prevent command execution. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LILIN). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2018

HP has released firmware updates that address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in some models of inkjet printers. HP has released firmware updates to address two critical RCE flaws affecting some Inkjet printers. Go to the Upgrading Printer Firmware page and follow the instructions provided to install the firmware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The vulnerability is an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP camera/NVR firmware, it was discovered by a security researcher that goes online with the moniker “Watchful IP.”. The expert pointed out that every firmware developed since 2016 has been tested and found to be vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in MoFi Network routers, including critical flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack a device. “Several firmware versions have been released, but some of the vulnerabilities have not been fully patched.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

“ Experts found hardcoded credentials in the firmware that are used to connect to a private broker through the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol for exchanging messages with remote IoT boards and sensors. If Twinkly lights are present in the network they will be instructed to display the message ‘Hack the Planet!’

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

The experts at the healthcare cybersecurity firm CyberMDX have found some flaws in the firmware of the anesthesia machines, the issues could expose patients to serious risks. 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

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. SecurityAffairs – Patch Tuesday, hacking).

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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.” firmware or later. .” firmware or later. ” reads the security bulletin.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates. The two agencies urge organizations to ensure their devices have not been previously infected, they recommend a full factory reset of the device before performing the firmware upgrade. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

Furthermore, even if software patches were issued, the likelihood of most users updating their device firmware is low. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – iLnkP2P flaws, IoT).

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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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