Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

“The build date coded in the last number block also points to the same date range: None of the firewall firmwares examined had been compiled after September 14, 2022.” ” These findings suggest that the data was likely stolen in the fall of 2022, but it’s unclear how attackers have obtained this information.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. In an email sent to customers today, Ubiquiti Inc.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our Firmware Scanner , which has been integrated into Kaspersky products since the beginning of 2019. This one is made up of implants found in the UEFI firmware within the SPI flash, a non-volatile storage external to the hard drive.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

My Cloud OS firmware is reaching the end of support, Western Digital customers have to update their WD My Cloud devices to the latest version. Devices on these older firmware versions will not receive security fixes or technical support.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

One of the main draws towards malware nested in such low levels of the operating system is that it is extremely difficult to detect and, in the case of firmware rootkits, will ensure a computer remains in an infected state even if the operating system is reinstalled or the user replaces the machine’s hard drive entirely.

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SecureList

JULY 6, 2022

As a rule, this means that the source code of the device’s firmware is unavailable and all the researcher can use is the user manual and a few threads on some user forum discussing the device’s operation. The vulnerability assessment of IoT/IIoT devices is based on analyzing their firmware.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Attackers are intercepting and storing encrypted internet traffic in anticipation of future quantum decryptiona practice known as "store now, decrypt later." This approach poses a significant threat, as sensitive information transmitted today could be decrypted in the future.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I also looked at custom firmware and soldering and why, to my mind, that was a path I didn't need to go down at this time. Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sophos backports the patch for CVE-2022-3236 for end-of-life (EOL) firewall firmware versions due to ongoing attacks exploiting the issue. No action is required if organizations have upgraded their firewalls to a supported firmware version after September 2022. All the vulnerable devices are running end-of-life (EOL) firmware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The researchers found that the botnet comprises MikroTik routers with various firmware versions, including recent ones. The SPF information is included in the domains DNS records as a TXT record. “The malspam campaign we investigated was large in scope, involving approximately 20,000 sender domains.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

The Planet WGS-804HPT industrial switch is used in building and home automation networks to provide connectivity of Internet of things (IoT) devices, IP surveillance cameras, and wireless LAN network applications. Planet Technology has released firmware version 1.305b241111 to address these issues. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2024

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, the security of Operational Technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is more critical than ever. Equally alarming was the widespread presence of known vulnerabilities, or “n-day” vulnerabilities, in the firmware images.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Update your child’s device’s firmware.

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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

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

APRIL 22, 2022

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns users to update their NAS Firmware to fix Apache HTTP flaws addressed in the Apache HTTP server last month. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns users to update their NAS Firmware to address Apache HTTP vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-22721 and CVE-2022-23943 , addressed in the Apache HTTP server in March.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

This web server is present in Arris firmware which can be found in several router models. ISP customer premise equipment (CPE) often uses this web server, and ISP subscribers will typically get these routers in loan for telephony and Internet access. Unfortunately the Arris firmware is based on the vulnerable version of muhttpd.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Censys found 30,000 internet-facing QNAP appliances potentially impacted by a recently disclosed critical code injection flaw. On January 30, Taiwanese vendor QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that affects QNAP NAS devices. Censys concludes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2022

At the end of 2021, researchers discovered a UEFI firmware-level compromise by analyzing logs from its Firmware Scanner. Threat actors compromised a single component within the firmware image to intercept the original execution flow of the machine’s boot sequence and inject the sophisticated implant. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

It’s not a mystery, a printer left exposed online without proper security could open the doors to hackers, now researchers from Shadowserver Foundation have discovered tens of thousands of printers that are exposed online that are leaking information. and printers (or print servers). ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2024

Researchers from Bishop Fox used BinaryEdge source data to find SonicWall firewalls with management interfaces exposed to the internet. The experts found that 76% (178,637 of 233,984) of the Internet-facing firewalls are vulnerable to one or both issues. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

“Using a Mirai malware variant that incorporates ChaCha20 and XOR decryption algorithms, it has been seen compromising vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the wild, such as the DigiEver DVR, and TP-Link devices through CVE-2023-1389.” .” reads the analysis published by Akamai. in newer ones.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2021

Netgear has released security and firmware updates for its JGS516PE Ethernet switch to address 15 vulnerabilities, including a critica remote code execution issue. “The switch internal management web application in firmware versions prior to 2.6.0.43 02 Dec 2020 – Netgear released the new firmware v2.6.0.48

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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.”. The expert pointed out that every firmware developed since 2016 has been tested and found to be vulnerable.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In a detailed post on Github , security researcher Watchful_IP describes how he found that the majority of the recent camera product ranges of Hikvision cameras are susceptible to a critical, unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, even with the latest firmware. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.,

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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

Information about these flaws has been secretly circulating amongst the major IT companies for months as they researched the ramifications and coordinated updates. The second is that some of the patches require updating the computer's firmware. It also requires more coordination.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

that impacted several routers, including Future X Communications (FXC) AE1021 and AE1021PE wall routers, running firmware versions 2.0.9 The Akamai SIRT this week published an additional update after one of the affected vendors, QNAP, released advisory information and guidance. and earlier. and earlier (5.0.0 released June 21, 2014).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The vulnerability is an improper error message handling in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, and ATP series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35. ” reported the SektorCERT.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

“Claroty has privately disclosed details to Real Time Automation (RTA), informing the vendor of a critical vulnerability in its proprietary 499ES EtherNet/IP (ENIP) stack. Experts was that vendors may have bought vulnerable versions of this stack before the 2012 update and are still using it in their firmware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 CVE-2020-9054 Multiple ZyXEL network-attached storage (NAS) devices running firmware version 5.2, Affected products include: NAS326 before firmware V5.21(AAZF.7)C0 A2pvI042j1.d26m

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 2,000 PDUs were directly exposed to the internet in 2021, and roughly a third of those were iBoot PDUs, according to a Censys research. The problems include server-side request forgery, path traversal, sensitive information disclosure, inappropriate access control, and faulty and erroneous authorisation (SSRF).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security experts Adam Nichols from GRIMM and d4rkn3ss from the Vietnamese internet service provider VNPT have independently reported a severe unpatched security vulnerability that affects 79 Netgear router models. Nichols discovered that the vulnerability affects 758 different firmware versions that run on 79 Netgear routers.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Keep your firmware and software updated. don’t install software from random places on the internet. So, I decided to update the advice myself.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. New research by Cybernews shows an exponential rise in the uptake of internet-facing cameras. Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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