Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2018
Other problems for the Amazon Key technology, a hacker posted a video on Twitter to show how to access a locked door after a delivery workerâs one-time code has been used. Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person to enter your home under […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, the leverages the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, that exploits vulnerabilities triggered by the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2018
Military worldwide have publicly shared online their exercise routes recorded through the fitness tracker Strava revealing the fitness sessions conducted inside or near military bases We discussed many times privacy risks related to IoT devices, here we are to discuss an alarming case, fitness tracker Strava revealed details of Military Bases. American and allied military worldwide have publicly shared their exercise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2018
A new botnet called Hide ‘N Seek (HNS botnet) appeared in the threat landscape, the malware is rapidly spreading infecting unsecured IoT devices, mainly IP cameras. The HNS botnet was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender, then it disappeared for a few days, and it has risen over the weekend. The number of infected systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2018
Masuta botnet targets routers using default credentials, one of the versions analyzed dubbed âPureMasutaâ relies on the old network administration EDB 38722 D-Link exploit. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the botnet. “We analyzed two variants of an IoT botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2018
Researcher @unixfreaxjp spotted the first time ever in the history of computer engineering a Linux malware designed to infect ARC CPU, this new Linux ELF malware was dubbed MIRAI OKIRU. In August 2016 the researcher @unixfreaxjp from @MalwareMustDie team first spotted the dreaded Mirai botnet, now the same researcher is announcing a new big earthquake in the malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2018
Security experts at Trend Micro have demonstrated that certain models of Sonos and Bose speakers are affected by vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to hijack them. Hackers can trigger the flaws to access the speakers and use them to play spooky sounds or to issue Alexa commands. Only specific models of the two companies are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2017
Experts from Elttam discovered a flaw in GoAhead tiny web server that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices, it could be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on affected devices. A vulnerability in the GoAhead tiny web server package, tracked as CVE-2017-17562, affects hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. The GoAhead solution is widely adopted by tech giants, including Comcast, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
Satori botnet, Mirai variant, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The Mirai botnet makes the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The activity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2017
Experts at NewSky Security scanned the Internet and discovered that “out of 1,475 unique IPs, 1,123 Lexmark printers had no security.” We think of Internet of Things (IoT) as all the “new” devices added to networks like webcams, Internet-connected toys, smarthome devices, etc. But we have been connecting unattended things to networks for a very long […]
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