Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2019
Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before. Mirai malware first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2014
Asus routers are still vulnerable to remote hacking after months of the disclosure of the flaw that allows hackers to access to the device-connected drive. Ars security portal reported that hackers expose eight-month-old weakness in Asus routers by leaving a message on victims’ drives. An Ars reader claimed to have found a strange message browsing the content of his external […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2014
Cisco confirmed the presence of a Backdoor that affects small business devices. The flaw was discovered by the French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken weeks ago. Cisco has recently disclosed (Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20140110-sbd) the presence of a backdoor in different small business networking devices, it is an undocumented Test Interface that could be exploited by attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2014
The French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken discovered the presence of a backdoor in principal models of routers including Netgear, Linksys and Cisco. The presence of a backdoor in the commercial routers it is no more a surprise, we found flawed firmware in the popular D-Link in the past and now it seem that a similar problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
D-Link company has recently released a new version of firmware to fix backdoor vulnerability in various network device models. Last October the security expert Craig Heffner discovered a backdoor inside different D-Link routers. Craig published an interesting blog post on “/dev/ttyS0″ on the reverse engineering of the backdoor (CVE-2013-6027) present in many D-Link devices, it described how […]
