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. The researchers tested 35 out of 234 fast-charging devices in the market. ” the researchers conclude.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

But depending on what code and data the hackers got access to, the worst-case scenario is that cyber criminals could create malicious firmware — and signed certificates to vouch for its authenticity. As one Slashdot commenter put it , “Everyone should assume that firmware on WD drives cannot be trusted at this point.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 27, 2022

A novel malware named CosmicStrand is said to be targeting the old motherboards offered by Asus and Gigabyte and the crux is that it can survive operating system re-installs and it survives in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFIs) unlike just the storage drive.

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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. Inoi 101 – Clean.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

The “Showcase.apk” package, developed by Smith Micro, is part of the firmware image on millions of Android Pixel phones, potentially enhancing sales in Verizon stores. The app is preinstalled in Pixel firmware and included in Google’s OTA updates for Pixel devices. Google is also notifying other Android OEMs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2024

In fact, Luna HSM customers can just download and install the latest FIPS validated firmware. For the full details, read the FIPS 140-3 Product Announcement on our Customer Support Portal that outlines where to get the latest firmware for the Luna Network and Luna PCIe models. And that’s it!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2024

Platform named Market Leader for Software Supply Chain Security SAN FRANCISCO – RSA Conference – May 6, 2024 – Eclypsium, the supply chain security company protecting critical hardware, firmware, and software, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Global InfoSec award for Market Leader Software Supply Chain Security by Cyber Defense (..)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

Some sectors on the drive will be allocated to the firmware that manage the hard drive and communicate with the operating system. The magnetic drive firmware will not usually notify the operating system about reassigned bad sectors. Magnetic Platter Hard Drives. Flash Memory Hard Drives.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices Federal Trade Commission FTC launched a "surveillance pricing market study" which concluded that specific captured details and data is used to target consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

and a handful of other Chinese tech firms that seemed to have a history of placing product market share and price above security. In fact, the researchers found it was trivial to set up a system that mimics the XMEye cloud and push malicious firmware updates to any device. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co.,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

”Our researchers focused on the market-leading Philips Hue smart bulbs and bridge, and found vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-6007) that enabled them to infiltrate networks using a remote exploit in the ZigBee low-power wireless protocol that is used to control a wide range of IoT devices.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

Some sectors on the drive will be allocated to the firmware that manage the hard drive and communicate with the operating system. The magnetic drive firmware will not usually notify the operating system about reassigned bad sectors. Magnetic Platter Hard Drives. Flash Memory Hard Drives.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

Industrial switches are made using universal firmware developed by Korenix Technology, a leading provider for industrial networking solutions based in Taiwan. As a result, nearly all industrial switches in the market today are currently suffering from similar exposures, regardless of your vendor.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. Accompanied by a new nationwide marketing program, it will give the state’s cyber community a critical mass and corporate address built similar to Silicon Valley innovation clusters. There are no “me too” technology companies in their mix.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Marketed as an automotive diagnostic solution, the tool was able to replace the original software of the targeted vehicles without respecting the protocol and without the original key. Vulnerabilities in the keyless entry systems have been found in the firmware of other car manufactures.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Example of available open printers on a single IoT search engine (Shodan.io): As we can see, many users and organizations still use internet-connected devices without thinking about security, installing firmware updates, or taking into account the implications of leaving their devices publicly accessible. Change the default password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sophos) an information technology company that develops and markets cybersecurity products.” Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to steal sensitive data, inject firmware payloads, and even reach LAN-connected devices. based Sophos Ltd. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“Cyberthreats evolve fast,” Thierry Breton, commissioner for the Internal Market, said in a statement. It’s also part of a larger EU effort to create a comprehensive set of common cybersecurity standards for products and services that come into the European market, Breton said. IoT market growth.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Both, the firmware and hardware of the tools are completely open-source, this means that researchers can extend their functionalities according to their needs. . The tool was initially designed for internal use , and was then adopted for several research projects over the years. NAND chips).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

The good news is that the leaked files doesn’t contain sensitive data about customers or employees of the chip maker. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 9, 2023

The manufacturer of notebooks, PCs, and GPUs stated that its IT team is working 24×7 to recover the data from the incident from a business continuity plan and is urging users not to download any kind of BIOS and firmware updates from external web resources and instead depend on the official website for all needs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

Experts analyzed more than 150,000 Android applications, including the top 100,000 apps from the official Google Play, the top 20,000 apps from an alternative store, and 30,000 pre-installed apps extracted from Samsung smartphones’ firmware. “we first identified 114,797 mobile apps that contain equivalence checking.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience, Nilsen will work closely with the Company’s executive management and Research and Development (R&D) team to design and deploy technological roadmaps for its value-driven cybersecurity innovations, with a focus on the US market. About the X-PHY ®. samantha@flexxon.com , m. (65)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

On June 11, Fortinet released a half-dozen security updates for its FortiOS firmware, including a weakness that researchers said allows an attacker to run malware on virtually any Fortinet SSL VPN appliance. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Since recent firmware updates, the ClamAV Antivirus fails to update due to 700+ clamav.net entries in /etc/hosts, all set to 0.0.0.0 “The real problems that I see with Qnap are: The marketing is pushing the private cloud message and tell users that the Qnap solution is a secure way to deploy it. “0.0.0.0 db.ac.ipv6.clamav.net

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The new round highlights market demand to protect global businesses from soaring breaches through supply chains of critical hardware, devices, firmware, and software.

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SecureList

MARCH 20, 2024

Their products were primarily intended for the Russian market. The same malware earlier had been found in the firmware of a kids’ smart watch by an Israeli manufacturer distributed mainly in Europe and the Middle East. The malware itself consists of a number of modules that provide a range of functions: Main module.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Faster development lifecycles and feature delivery often take priority over security to get products to market. Over-the-air (OTA) software and firmware updates must be delivered securely and effectively.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

These are the leaders in networking, and accounting for nearly 70% of the market.” The flaw can only be exploited if the device using the chip has the over-the-air firmware download (OAD) feature enabled. “A vulnerability exists in the firmware of embedded BLE radios that are part of some Aruba access points.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware. Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). The phishing kit market. Targeted attacks. Okta confirmed the breach and stated that 2.5

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 15, 2022

Code signing certificates assign a digital signature on executable software and firmware to allow them and mark them as trusted. For years, we’ve been preaching to our customers that code signing keys are like master keys to a kingdom that has locks that can never be changed,” said Eddie Glenn, Sr Product Marketing Manager at Venafi.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you take a look at the global market for IoT, you can easily spot the trend. The market surpassed $100 billion in revenue, and it’s revenue for the 2025 projections tell us that it will hit $1.5 IoT market exploded because IoT devices offer more convenience, are easy to use, and bring true value. Shadow IoT Devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Older CVEs are more likely to have been mediated, and newer ones are less so since developers might not yet patch them and, even more frequently, the firmware might not be updated by users. Aggregated data, however, does not reveal a more precise picture as different manufacturers dominate in different markets. Most devices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The vendor addressed the unauthenticated access to the content of the SD card with the release of firmware updates on January 29, 2022. According to the experts, there are 3 version of Wyze Cam devices on the market and the first one has been discontinued and will not receive security updates to address the flaws.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

To demonstrate their point, they released an ESP32 firmware that turns the micro-controller into an (upload only) modem. AirTags are marketed by Apple as a super-easy way to keep track of your stuff. They also created a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data. How AirTags are involved.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The market share of ransomware attacks on business with under 100 employees is now almost 40%. While the media headlines of record breaking ransoms against fortune 500 companies will always take center stage, the small to mid market has always been the bread and butter for cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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