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New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack

Schneier on Security

“Once arbitrary code execution is achieved during the DXE phase, it’s game over for platform security,” researchers from Binarly, the security firm that discovered the vulnerabilities, wrote in a whitepaper.

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Thousands of Hikvision video cameras remain unpatched and vulnerable to takeover

Malwarebytes

However, according to a whitepaper published by CYFIRMA , tens of thousands of systems used by 2,300 organizations across 100 countries have still not applied the security update, and are therefore vulnerable to exploitation. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2021-36260 and was addressed by Hikvision via a firmware update in September 2021.

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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. ” continues Akamai.

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

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 installing routers update and patched firmware to mitigate the threat. ” continues Akamai.

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

Security Affairs

. “The hackers behind it reportedly took advantage of poorly configured routers that had the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service enabled, which caused the routers to forward public ports to the private devices and be open to the public internet,” reads the analysis published by Yang. Pierluigi Paganini.