Internet of Things

More than 800,000 DrayTek routers at risks due to a mysterious zero-day exploit

DrayTek routers are affected by a zero-day vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to change DNS settings on some models.…

8 years ago

Satori Botnet is targeting exposed Ethereum mining pools running the Claymore mining software

While a new variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet, so-called Wicked Mirai, emerged in the wild the operators of the Mirai Satori…

8 years ago

Hacking the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant to spy on unaware users

Checkmarx experts created a proof-of-concept Amazon Echo Skill for Alexa that instructs the device to eavesdrop on users’ conversations and then…

8 years ago

Attackers exfiltrated a casino’s high-roller list through a connected fish tank

Nicole Eagan, the CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed that is company investigated that hack of an unnamed casino that was…

8 years ago

Experts uncovered a proxy botnet composed of over 65,000 routers exposed via UPnP protocol

Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the…

8 years ago

13 Vulnerabilities in Hanwha SmartCams Demonstrate Risks of Feature Complexity

The researchers at Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT decided to check the popular Hanwha SmartCams and discovered 13 vulnerabilities. Wikipedia describes Attack…

8 years ago

GCHQ fears energy smart meters could expose millions of Bretons to hack

In the United Kingdom, new smart energy meters that are set to be installed in 27 million homes were found…

8 years ago

OMG botnet, the first Mirai variant that sets up proxy servers on vulnerable devices

Researchers at Fortinet have discovered the OMG botnet, the first Mirai variant that sets up proxy servers on the compromised…

8 years ago

DoubleDoor, a new IoT Botnet bypasses firewall using two backdoor exploits

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet dubbed DoubleDoor that is able to bypass firewall as well as modem security using two…

8 years ago

Researcher found multiple vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Routers, update them now!

Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a…

8 years ago

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