Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. “Firmware version 4.60

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

China-linked APT group Mustang Panda employed a custom firmware implant targeting TP-Link routers in targeted attacks since January 2023. In most recent attacks observed by Check Point, the threat actors employed custom firmware implant designed explicitly for TP-Link routers. ” reads the report published by Check point.

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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. 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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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2021

Network equipment vendor D-Link has released a firmware hotfix to fix multiple vulnerabilities in the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router. Network equipment vendor D-Link has released a firmware hotfix to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The vulnerabilities are: CVE-2024-12511: SMB / FTP pass-back vulnerability CVE-2024-12510: LDAP pass-back vulnerability The vulnerabilities impact Xerox Versalink MFPs and Firmware Version: 57.69.91 ” Organizations using Xerox VersaLink C7025 Multifunction printers should update to the latest firmware. and earlier.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. Firmware version 4.60 of Zyxel USG devices contains an undocumented account (zyfwp) with an unchangeable password. Firmware version 4.60

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” The use of default passwords represents a serious problem also for the Chinese vendor.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2025

In March 2023, Mandiant researchers reported that alleged China-linked threat actors, tracked as UNC4540 , deployed custom malware on a SonicWall SMA appliance.The malware allows attackers to steal user credentials, achieve persistence through firmware upgrades, and provides shell access. reads the report published by Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

. “Through the course of collaboration with trusted third parties, SonicWall has been made aware of threat actors actively targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running unpatched and end-of-life (EOL) 8.x x firmware in an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Netgear has released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities affecting several of its smart switches used by businesses. Netgear has released firmware updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in more than a dozen of its smart switches used on businesses. GC108PP fixed in firmware version 1.0.8.2

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link has addressed a critical vulnerability impacting some TP-Link Archer routers that could allow attackers to login without passwords. “In such an event, the victim could lose access to the console and even a shell, and thereby would not be able to re-establish a new password.” ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Researchers discovered multiple high-risk vulnerabilities affecting the latest firmware version for the Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 router. Researchers from Tenable have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the latest firmware version (version 1.0.4.120) of the popular Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 WiFi router. ” states Tenable.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following D-Link router vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2014-100005 Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-600 router (rev.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In short, it goes from a newline injection in the password field, through being able to write a file with constant uncontrolled content of 2 (like, one byte 32h), through a DoS and session crafting (which yields an admin web UI user), to an eventual post-auth shell injection (which yields full root).” .” Coldwind explained.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

Microsoft experts have disclosed a series of vulnerabilities in the firmware of Netgear routers which could lead to data leaks and full system takeover. “In our research, we unpacked the router firmware and found three vulnerabilities that can be reliably exploited.” html) and the firmware image itself (.chk

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

A group of security researchers has found thousands of Android apps containing hidden backdoors and blacklists. There are 7,584 apps with secret access keys, 501 apps that embed master passwords, and 6,013 apps with secret commands. Moreover, these security risks hold generally across all of our data sources.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The researchers analyzed the network devices using IoT Inspector’s security platform, which checked for thousands of CVEs and security flaws. “Some of the security issues were detected more than once. Since the integration of a new kernel into the firmware is costly, no manufacturer was up to date here.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

” The researchers noticed that the attack targeted firmware versions of devices ranging between 7.0.14 Attackers also reset the guest account password, created new VPN portals, and used specific ports (4433, 59449, 59450). and 7.0.16, which were released on February 2024 and October 2024 respectively.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The researchers performed reverse engineering of the firmware image for the COMpact 5500, version 7.8A The researchers used Ghidra for their analysis, it is the open-source reverse engineering tool developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA). . “Equipped with this password we then could authenticate successfully.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 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.”. No username or password needed nor any actions need to be initiated by the camera owner. ” wrote the expert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

Someone can use this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the system, such as usernames and passwords. This information can then be used to reconfigure or disable the alarm system.” ” states the report published by Eye security. ” reads the description of the vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2023

Researchers from firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered a suspected backdoor-like behavior within Gigabyte systems. The experts discovered that the firmware in Gigabyte systems drops and executes a Windows native executable during the system startup process. The executable resides in a UEFI firmware volume.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“The authentication function contains undocumented code which provides the ability to authenticate as root without having to know the actual root password. An adversary with the private key can remotely reboot the device without having to know the root password. ” reads the advisory published by the expert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP has published a security advisory to warn customers of a new piece of malware named Dovecat that is targeting NAS devices. The malware targets QNAP NAS devices exposed online that use weak passwords. ” reads the security advisory published by the vendor. Use stronger admin passwords.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

The company has already fixed the issues with the release of firmware versions 1.2.2.S0, “The industrial managed switch series 852 from WAGO is affected by multiple vulnerabilities such as old software components embedded in the firmware. ” reads the security advisory. ” reads the security advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The PMK is calculated from the following parameters: Passphrase– The WiFi password — hence, the part that we are really looking for. Hoorvitch used an attack technique devised by Jens “atom” Steube’s (Hashcat’s lead developer) to retrieve the PMKIDs that allowed him to derive the password. SSID – The name of the network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The industrial automation giant ABB addressed the flaw with the release of firmware updates on July 14, 2022. “We chose the simplest approach, reading /etc/shadow and using hashcat cracking the root account password (which turned out to be root:root). ” reads an advisory published by Claroty.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

CGI password logger This installs a fake version of the device admin login page, logging successful authentications and passing them to the legitimate login page. The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The FBI provided the following mitigations to protect against ransomware attacks: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“It is found that our wireless products, FLEXLAN FX3000/2000 series, have a firmware vulnerability. There are possibilities of data plagiarism, falsification, system destruction, and malicious program execution if this vulnerability was exploited by malicious attackers who can access to this private webpage (with passwords information).”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

ASUS addressed critical vulnerabilities in multiple router models, urging customers to immediately install firmware updates. ASUS is warning customers to update some router models to the latest firmware to address critical vulnerabilities. “Update your router to the latest firmware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates/patches are released. Use strong passwords and regularly change passwords to network systems and accounts, implementing the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Researchers at security and compliance assessment firm Onekey warns of an arbitrary code execution via FunJSQ, which is a third-party module developed by Xiamen Xunwang Network Technology for online game acceleration, that impacts multiple Netgear router models. present in the majority of NETGEAR firmware images in our corpus.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2019

The security advisory published by the company states that the issue impacts YubiKey series devices running versions 4.4.2 of the firmware. The weakness impacts PIV smart card applications, Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication, OATH one-time passwords, and OpenPGP. there is no released firmware version 4.4.3)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

“A use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in FortiSIEM may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain SSH access to the supervisor as the restricted user “tunneluser” by leveraging knowledge of the private key from another installation or a firmware image.” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Boffins discovered bugs in WiFi chips that can be exploited to extract passwords and manipulate traffic by targeting a device’s Bluetooth component. Threat actors can execute code by exploiting an unpatched or new security issue over-the-air, or abusing the local OS firmware update mechanism. Pierluigi Paganini.

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