SecureList

MAY 25, 2022

The electronic control unit with a built-in SIM card provides the manufacturer with the vehicle’s location, warns the owner about upcoming vehicle inspections, and can even contact emergency services. And all that by just using a mobile application. About mobile applications. Interface of a typical companion app.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

The campaign, dubbed “Operation SyncHole”, has impacted at least six organizations in South Korea’s software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, and we are confident that many more companies have actually been compromised. All traffic is encrypted with the generated AES key.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

iLnkP2P is designed to allow users of these devices to quickly and easily access them remotely from anywhere in the world, without having to tinker with one’s firewall: Users simply download a mobile app, scan a barcode or enter the six-digit ID stamped onto the bottom of the device, and the P2P software handles the rest.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” The attackers are also spotted manually disabling and encrypting virtual machines.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 8, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted on Taiwan-based Laptop Manufacturer Gigabyte is said to have halted the production operation of the company from the past few days. Preliminary investigation has proved that few of the servers related to manufacturing were hit badly by the file encrypting malware.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2021

Your mobile device can be hacked very easily without your knowledge. It's not just consumers who are targeted by cybercriminals, the rise of smartphones and tablets in the workplace and the increase in remote working has resulted in hackers targeting businesses via their mobile device vulnerabilities. billion by the end of 2021.

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Hacker's King

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

How the Hack Works Many modern cars, including those from Kia, use telematics systems that connect to mobile apps and cloud-based services for convenience features like remote start or door unlocking. The company is working on updating its software and strengthening encryption to protect against unauthorized access.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

According to the report, 37 percent of organisations use sensitive data with mobile applications and 91 percent are either using or are planning to use mobile payments. It’s worth noting, however, that securing mobile data against potential threats is not necessarily about encrypting the data on the mobile device itself.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Dave Kleidermacher, Jesse Seed, Brandon Barbello, Sherif Hanna, Eugene Liderman, Android, Pixel, and Silicon Security Teams Every day, billions of people around the world trust Google products to enrich their lives and provide helpful features – across mobile devices, smart home devices, health and fitness devices, and more.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Qualcomm and MediaTek are impacted by vulnerabilities similar to the Kr00k issue disclosed early this year. Earlier this year, experts from ESET disclosed the Kr00k , a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“According to Vladimir Kononovich, some manufacturers rely on security through obscurity, with proprietary protocols that are poorly studied and the goal of making it difficult for attackers to procure equipment to find vulnerabilities in such devices. Wincor is currently owned by ATM manufacturer giant Diebold Nixdorf.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The digital imaging products manufacturer OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 ransomware attack. The company designs and develops digital imaging products for use in mobile phones, laptops, netbooks and webcams, security and surveillance cameras, entertainment, automotive and medical imaging systems.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

We’ve come to rely on PKI to validate and authenticate all connections on websites and mobile apps – as well as all of the internal IT activity, company-to-company, that supports the digital services we now take for granted. Where would we be without PKI, the framework used to issue and manage digital certificates?

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Google Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s hard to believe that at a time where technologies like AI are transforming our world, a forty-year old mobile messaging standard is still so prevalent. These findings add to the well-established facts about SMS’ weaknesses , lack of encryption chief among them. That’s especially concerning when it comes to security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

One of the most important dates any mobile enthusiast will have marked on their calendar is the annual occurrence of MWC Barcelona ( Mobile World Congress ). The post MWC Barcelona 2021 – Highlights from the biggest mobile trade show appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. The next generation tech of 2021 revealed from afar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2021

The cars we drive today have become truly connected objects, capable of a variety of functionalities that both users and manufacturers could have only dreamed of in past decades. However, with increased connectivity in our cars, new challenges are arising for both manufacturers and users. Technologies that enable connectivity in cars.

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SecureList

MARCH 20, 2024

Introduction Malware for mobile devices is something we come across very often. million malware, adware, and riskware attacks on mobile devices. Among the mobile platforms, Android remains the most popular target operating system for cybercriminals. In 2023 , our technologies blocked 33.8

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

The malware is distributed as a popular cleaner and speed optimization app for mobile devices, most of the infections reported by Kaspersky are in Russia (80.56%), India (3.43%), and Algeria (2.43%). “The malware can gain root access mainly on devices running Android versions 6 and 7 from Chinese manufacturers (including ODMs).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

“The Group’s teams are fully mobilized to ensure a return to normal as quickly as possible and everything is done to ensure business continuity. And part of the information system would have been encrypted.” “A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

NCSC) FBI Warns of Increasing Threat of Cyber Criminals Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (FBI) 4 - Groups call for IoT end-of-life disclosure law Manufacturers of internet-of-things (IoT) devices should be required by law to disclose the products theyre no longer supporting, so that customers are aware of the security risks those products pose.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

“Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working with the highest priority to resolve this issue. Japan-headquartered Olympus manufactures optical and digital reprography technology for the medical and life sciences industries.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. But rightly or wrongly, the risk you take when using devices in a fashion they weren't designed for is that the manufacturer may break that functionality at some time.

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Google Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Posted by Eugene Liderman, Android Security and Privacy Team Evaluating the security of mobile devices is difficult, and a trusted way to validate a company’s claims is through independent, industry certifications. Google is the first manufacturer to be certified on the latest OS version.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2021

This alliance is all about bringing the eSE-powered trust promise to Android the world’s most popular mobile operating system (OS) among connected consumer devices; Android, represents 84% of the worldwide smartphone shipment OS market in 2021 (source: IDC). Blog: Four questions OEMs should ask embedded Secure Element manufacturers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2022

Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer from Mexico, has released a press statement that it was hit by Lockbit ransomware in the last week of May and is recovering data through a business continuity plan. In one instance, the group claimed to have wiped data from its victimized database in the United States.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

In response, manufacturers are intensifying their cybersecurity efforts, incorporating advanced CI/CD workflows to safeguard medical devices from escalating attacks. New security solutions are now aiding healthcare organizations' IT teams in promptly resolving issues, even with devices from various manufacturers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2019

Security experts from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Constitution (KAIST) have discovered 36 vulnerabilities in the LTE protocol used by most mobile carriers. According to the researchers, the Radio Resource Control (RRC) Connection procedure is not encrypted and an attacker could modify data transferred.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 22, 2023

Also read: Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions Fingerprint Image Hijacking For fingerprint image hijacking, the researchers took advantage of a weakness in fingerprint sensors’ SPI protocol to enable man-in-the-middle attacks. “SFA sensors except Touch ID do not encrypt any data and lack mutual authentication,” they wrote.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks New APT threat actor targets Russian government entities In May 2024, we discovered a new APT targeting Russian government organizations. IT threat evolution in Q3 2024 IT threat evolution in Q3 2024.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The ARM TrustZone is part of all modern mobile devices, the most popular commercial implementations of the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for mobile devices running on top of ARM hardware: Qualcomm’s Secure Execution Environment (QSEE), used on Pixel, LG, Xiaomi, Sony, HTC, OnePlus, Samsung and many other devices.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. So PKI can be used to secure connections. It already does this for the Internet.

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SecureList

APRIL 25, 2025

Neither payload is encrypted. Loading the configuration All field values within the configuration are encrypted using AES-128 in ECB mode and then encoded with Base64. For this purpose, the malware periodically transmits a wealth of device information (MAC address, model, CPU, manufacturer, IMEI, IMSI, etc.),

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

Its combined USB-based connectivity and contactless modes ensure compatibility with a wide array of devices, including Windows desktops, Mac, and mobile devices, enhancing its widespread applicability and convenience. The company oversees the entire manufacturing cycle, from design to production to delivery.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 30, 2024

A team of security researchers has discovered critical vulnerabilities in the Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) implementations of major smartphone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In the classic case of a human user clicking to a website, CAs, like DigiCert, verify the authenticity of the website and encrypt the data at both ends.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

The threat actors group also known as Black Bansee on the dark web seems to have shifted its focus onto South Korea these days as it has been consistently targeting government think tanks, manufacturing firms, educational institutions and some political stalwarts. More details will be published as soon as they are confirmed!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Requirements also included that the firmware was to be signed by the manufacturer and verified by the pacemaker. The solution allows the manufacturer to create an innovative process that maintains data safety throughout every communication. Use case 3: Smart meter manufacturer.

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