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ETERNALSILENCE – 270K+ devices vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet build using NSA hacking tools

Security Affairs

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. Experts recommend users to install routers update and patched firmware to mitigate the threat. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hundreds of thousands of routers exposed to Eternal Silence campaign via UPnP?

Security Affairs

A hacking campaign, tracked as Eternal Silence, is abusing UPnP to compromise routers and use them to carry out malicious activities. In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices.

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. ” Experts suggest disabling the UPnP feature if possible to prevent abuses and are uring users of running firmware up to date.

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Back to the Fuzz: Fuzzing for Command Injections

ForAllSecure

Download the Whitepaper More Resources. Check out my previous blog post, Firmware Fuzzing 101 , for a more detailed overview. If you want to learn more about LD_PRELOAD and hacking on binaries that are traditionally difficult to fuzz, check out the Fuzzing Firmware 101 blog post as well. Happy Hacking!

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The Cybersecurity Executive Order: the first 120 days

Security Boulevard

As a result of this workshop, NIST released a whitepaper on June 25, 2021, “ Definition of Critical Software under the Executive Order (EO) 14028.”. Since the Executive Order seeks to enhance the security and integrity of “critical software,” defining the term needed to be one of the first agenda items completed.