Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. A Safer Internet of Things. The post The Internet of Things Is Everywhere.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

However, when your DMZ network includes a proxy server, administrators also have the option to filter all internal internet usage through the DMZ. DMZ network architecture DMZ Architecture There are two main layout options to choose from when developing a DMZ subnetwork: a single firewall layout and a dual firewall layout.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

A big reason why APIs haven’t gotten the attention they deserve may be that, from a security standpoint, they fall into a category of hacking tactics known as Living off the Land, or LotL. Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment. Here are my key takeaways: Manipulating APIs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

“The system calls on companies and entities in the energy and water sectors to immediately exchange passwords from the Internet to the control systems, reduce Internet connectivity and ensure that the most up-to-date version of controllers is installed.” SecurityAffairs – water facilities, hacking).

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Swiss hacker and member of the hacking collective “APT-69420 Arson Cats,” Tillie Kottmann, claimed credit for the Verkada hack. The hack raises serious questions about who had access to what, and why, and highlights both the security and privacy risks that come with admin and super-admin accounts. The attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The company warns that the risk is higher if the management interface is accessible from the internet or an untrusted network, directly or via a dataplane interface with a management profile. Fundamentally, these sorts of architectures lead to things like header smuggling and path confusion, which can result in many impactful bugs!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Researchers are warning of a new variant of recently disclosed SimJacker attack, dubbed WIBattack , that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. WIBattack is a new variant of the recently discovered Simjacker attack method that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The malicious code can target various architectures, it supports both flooder and backdoor capabilities. The primary target of NKAbuse is Linux desktops, however, it can target MISP and ARM architecture. NKN (New Kind of Network) is a decentralized peer-to-peer network protocol that relies on blockchain technology.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts noticed that the malware supports multiple CPU architectures, including x86(32/64), ARM(32/64), MIPS(MIPS32/MIPS-III) and PPC, it is written in the Go open-source programming language. The malware is able to wipe content from home routers, Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices, and Linux servers. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

This extortion campaign involved several security failures, including exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and the lack of a least privilege architecture. This indicates that these threat actor groups are both skilled and knowledgeable in advanced cloud architectural processes and techniques.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Threat actors that goes online with the moniker ZeroX claim to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant end it is offering for sale it on multiple hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Saudi Aramco). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. ” The hacking group initially compromised one of the telecommunication companies by leveraging external DNS (eDNS) servers which are part of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

For this reason, it is essential to disconnect these devices from the internet, disable remote access, and use a strong, unique password. “My Cloud OS 5 is a major and fundamental security release that provides an architectural revamp of our older My Cloud firmware and adds new defenses to thwart common classes of attacks.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

the firm’s Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, is quoted as saying that Apple “makes the most secure mobile devices on the market.”. Also concerning is the fact that in Apple’s Lockdown announcement, Ivan Krsti?, Is that really true?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As Google’s open source architecture helps in encouraging a wide range of device ecosystem ranging from tablets to high-end devices, it helps create a wide range of opportunities to administrators and users. But in reality it is a malware that is suspected to be developed by a North Korean hacking group.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

If hacking is opening a door by picking its lock, then DDoS is blocking the door by boarding it up from the outside. For Internet devices, the network edge is where the device, or the local network containing the device, communicates with the Internet. The target. Vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America. Loucaides One type of common firmware vulnerability isn’t so much a coding flaw as it is an architectural soft spot, if you will. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei. Asus promised to strengthen security of its firmware update process.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

API hacking escapades. Over the past couple of years, good-guy researchers and malicious hackers alike have steadily scaled up their hacking activities to flush them out. Over the past couple of years, good-guy researchers and malicious hackers alike have steadily scaled up their hacking activities to flush them out.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2025

Kaspersky researchers reported that new variants of the Eagerbee backdoor being used in attacks against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and government entities in the Middle East. dll , gathers system information, including NetBIOS name, OS details, processor architecture, and IP addresses. The backdoor, named dllloader1x64.dll

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2021

TPLINK #cybersecurity #rce #cve #hacking #routerhacking #kpmghungary I found an RCE vulnerability in a TP-Link TL-WR840N EU V5 router (CVE-2021-41653). Like the Mirai botnet, Dark Mirai determines the victim’s architecture to fetch and download the matching payload. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2024

The attack begins with the threat actor scanning the internet to find hosts with Docker’s default port 2375 open. Researchers at Datadog uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign linked to the attackers behind Spinning YARN campaign. The threat actors target publicly exposed and unsecured Docker API endpoints for initial access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Researchers found that one of the most popular Internet of Things real-time operating system, FreeRTOS, is affected by serious vulnerabilities. Researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs team have found that one of the most popular Internet of Things real-time operating system, FreeRTOS , is affected by serious vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers spotted an updated version of the KmsdBot botnet that is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Hacker's King

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

You probably know about Netcat a Swiss Army Knife for networking pen-testing tool for hackers and cybersecurity experts, but what if you get something like that for Internet Of Things (IoT) devices to test their security before an actual hacker does. Principally it has two different components: Discovery modules.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, Cerberus Sentinel. Hacks and breaches are inevitable even for the most well-protected enterprise. This was not a sophisticated attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“The investigation has yielded insights into the botnet’s network architecture, exploitation campaigns, malware components, and operational use, illuminating the evolving tactics and techniques employed by the threat actors. “This botnet has targeted entities in the U.S. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 29, 2020

In this kind of attack, hackers intercept payment card data and personal information from e-commerce sites by exploiting the architectural complexity of those e-commerce sites. . Magento has about a 12% market share and represents less than 1% of the entire assemblage of code that comprises the Internet. . The quick answer is: Anyone.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

Internet of Things (IoT) Security: The proliferation of IoT devices has opened a new frontier for cybersecurity concerns. Additionally, APTs, orchestrated by nation-states or skilled hacking groups, aim to gain prolonged unauthorized access to networks, often remaining undetected for extended periods.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The Raccoon stealer is written in C++ by Russian-speaking developers that initially promoted it exclusively on Russian-speaking hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

According to the advisory that was issued with the help of leading cybersecurity firms (Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Schneider Electric), nation-state hacking groups were able to hack multiple industrial systems using a new ICS-focused malware toolkit dubbed PIPEDREAM that was discovered in early 2022.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

computer name, user name, OS version, architecture type, list of installed anti-malware products) to the operators. “Users should apply the latest patch for OS and programs such as Internet browsers, and update V3 to the latest version to prevent malware infection in advance.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption. For instance, the Russian Turla hacking ring was recently spotted spreading an innovative Trojan, called Reductor , designed to alter the way Chrome and Firefox browsers handle HTTPS connections.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. Then the script downloads the actual Enemybot binary which is compiled for the target device’s architecture. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Enemybot). Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned To nominate, please visit:?

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