Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Researchers discovered tens of vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware code used by the major device manufacturers. Researchers at firmware security company Binarly have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware code used by the major device makers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EUFI firmware).

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DECEMBER 26, 2024

. “One of the easiest methods for threat actors to compromise new hosts is to target outdated firmware or retired hardware.” Hardware manufacturers do not always issue patches for retired devices, and the manufacturer itself may sometimes be defunct. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The manufacturer also addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-45696 and CVE-2024-45698. “When D-Link became aware of the reported security issues, we promptly started investigating and developing security patches. .” DIR-X4860 A1 firmware version 1.00, 1.04 ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Researchers discovered a total of 226 potential security vulnerabilities in nine Wi-Fi popular routers from known manufacturers. The researchers analyzed the network devices using IoT Inspector’s security platform, which checked for thousands of CVEs and security flaws.

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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

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.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Unfortunately, often manufacturers sell older OS versions as newer ones. Users may also mistakenly believe TV boxes are more secure than smartphones and are less likely to install antivirus software, increasing their risk when downloading third-party apps or unofficial firmware.

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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.) and sends it to a server under the control of the attackers ([link]. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Positive Technologies researchers Vladimir Kononovich and Alexey Stennikov have discovered security flaws Wincor Cineo ATMs that could be exploited to bypass Black-Box attack protections and withdraw cash. The vulnerabilities discovered by the security duo impacts the Wincor Cineo ATMs with the RM3 and CMD-V5 dispensers. score of 6.8.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2020

A high-severity vulnerability affecting CompactRIO controllers manufactured by the vendor National Instruments (NI) could allow remote attackers to disrupt production processes in an organization. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a security advisory to warn organizations about the flaw.

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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

JUNE 16, 2024

Taiwanese manufacturer giant ASUS addressed a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability impacting several router models. Some impacted models will not receive the firmware updates because they have reached the end-of-life (EoL). score: 9.8), impacting seven router models. impacting multiple devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Lenovo has released security updates to address a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities impacting various ThinkBook, IdeaPad, and Yoga laptop models. An attacker can exploit the flaws to disable UEFI Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a security feature of the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.3.1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2021

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090 ) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090 , impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Our research shows that large and small manufacturers are identifiable, with Aastra-Mitel topping the list. Aastra-Mitel tops the manufacturer list, the United States leads the list among countries, and London tops the chart among cities. Devices made by the US manufacturer Polycom, a subsidiary of Plantronics Inc.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The infamous TrickBot gets a new improvement, authors added a new feature dubbed “ TrickBoot ” designed to exploit well-known vulnerabilities in the UEFI/BIOS firmware and inject malicious code, such as bootkits. TrickBot, one of the most active botnets, in the world, gets a new improvement by adding a UEFI/BIOS Bootkit Feature.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Lenovo warns of vulnerabilities in its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) shipped with at least 100 notebook models. The Secure boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to ensure that a device boots using only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

All too often, this gives them a false sense of security: when in fact, threat actors can not only access and watch your camera feed but exploit the unsecured device to hack into your network. After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 The reign of a Chinese brand.

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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. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Unfortunately, manufacturers often sell older OS versions as newer ones. Users may also mistakenly believe TV boxes are more secure than smartphones and are less likely to install antivirus software, increasing their risk when downloading third-party apps or unofficial firmware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers found multiple backdoors in popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. Researchers from RedTeam Pentesting discovered multiple backdoors in a popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. “Firmware Update 8.2B

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The researchers discovered the issue by analyzing firmware images used devices from the above manufacturers. The experts analyzed one of the core frameworks EDKII used as a part of any UEFI firmware which has its own submodule and wrapper over the OpenSSL library ( OpensslLib ) in the CryptoPkg component. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

Tens of software vulnerabilities affected Qualcomm firmware and impacted the devices of Microsoft, Lenovo, and Samsung. Qualcomm January 2023 security bulletin addressed 22 software vulnerabilities in its Snapdragon suite. CVE-2022-33265 (CVSS Score 7.3) – the flaw is an Information exposure in Powerline Communication Firmware.

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

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2024

The Outpost24 researcher Timothy Hjort reported the flaw to the manufacturer and published a detailed analysis and PoC exploit codes for the flaws. The vulnerabilities affect NAS326 running firmware versions 5.21(AAZF.16)C0 16)C0 and earlier, and NAS542 running firmware versions 5.21(ABAG.13)C0 13)C0 and older.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As of today, the researchers discovered 16 security vulnerabilities, with 20 common vulnerability exposures (CVEs) already assigned and four vulnerabilities are pending CVE assignment from Intel and Qualcomm. Crashes generally trigger a fatal assertion, segmentation faults due to a buffer or heap overflow within the SoC firmware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. The QSnatch malware implements multiple functionalities, such as: .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Patches for the issues affecting Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers have been made available, and OEMs have been notified with a strong recommendation to deploy security updates as soon as possible. Please contact your device manufacturer for more information on the patch status about specific devices.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Flashing Firmware: Flashing BUSSide firmware inside the NodeMCU is quick and easy: # apt-get install esptool # git clone [link] # esptool --port /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x00000 BUSSide/FirmwareImages/*.bin. his majesty, the Firmware). In a couple of minutes you should get extracted the firmware. What do you do?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“CISA encourages manufacturers, vendors, and developers to review BRAKTOOTH: Causing Havoc on Bluetooth Link Manager and update vulnerable Bluetooth System-on-a-Chip (SoC) applications or apply appropriate workarounds.” ” reads CISA’s advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

An invalidation data region is created by varying the OP area that can be changed by the user or by the firmware manager. However, a threat actor can reduce the size of the OP area using the firmware manager generating an invalid data area. This attack could lead to an information-disclosing attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The researchers analyzed the firmware and set up a 2G base station in order to intercept and analyze the devices’ communications. Itel it2160 – The device was spotted transferring some info to the domain asv.transsion.com (Country, Model, Firmware version, Language. And the manufacturer if you find any incomprehensible activity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Researchers from security firm Trellix discovered some critical vulnerabilities in HID Mercury Access Controllers that can be exploited by attackers to remotely unlock doors. The flaws impact products manufactured by LenelS2, a provider of advanced physical security solutions (i.e. ” reads the post published by Trellix.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers from industrial security firm Claroty disclosed details of a vulnerability affecting ABB Totalflow flow computers and remote controllers. Flow computers are used to calculate volume and flow rates for oil and gas that are critical to electric power manufacturing and distribution.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The Siemens S7 is considered one of the most secure controllers in the industry, it is used in power plants, traffic lights, water pumps, building control, production lines, aviation systems, and many other critical infrastructures. . ” reads a security advisory published by Siemens.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2024

ChargePoint, with its last firmware update, has disabled the HTTP server and updated the NTP client to address the issues. Thanks to the analysis and help of Sternum IoT, ChargePoint was able to correct weaknesses in CPH50, reduce the attack surface and thus improve the security of the product.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Realtek published a security advisory on August 15 to warn customers about security updates to address vulnerabilities in its software developers kits (SDK) which is used by at least 65 separate vendors. On August 15, firmware security company IoT Inspector published details about the flaws.

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