How are IoT botnets even a thing when the only write-able folder is /var or /tmp and both gets reset every restart?

This "No Persistence" and having to re-infect again after every reboot seems so inefficient for IoT to be such pursued targets.
Also, most of the persistence methods I have seen tend to be model specific & rare.

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Why do routers manufacturer tend to encrypt the router config even though it would be helpful if customers could view and modify it on the go? [closed]

If they are doing that to stop threat actors then they only halted the normal users …. and if they are doing that to hide secrets and hard coded passwords then they are only obstructing the pentesters and security researchers.
I can’t fi… Continue reading Why do routers manufacturer tend to encrypt the router config even though it would be helpful if customers could view and modify it on the go? [closed]

is there a reason for FB messenger to request the captive portal page (evil twin testing)?

while trying evil twin and monitoring the traffic log on my phone using http canary app … i noticed on the second the phone connects to the evil ap network .. facebook messenger requests the page .. while other apps requests normal pages… Continue reading is there a reason for FB messenger to request the captive portal page (evil twin testing)?

is it possible to bypass cookie protection to perform a CSRF on HUAWEI HG531 v1 router?

the AJAX login script

var xhr1 = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr1.open(“post”, ‘https://192.168.1.1/index/login.cgi’, false);
xhr1.send(“Username=admin&Password=6836394be82df057e085fc344c6179d1b50b30224ad0SJ0GQrNWmpsXCSk5s… Continue reading is it possible to bypass cookie protection to perform a CSRF on HUAWEI HG531 v1 router?

Is it possible to exfiltrate a router config file to server using csrf ajax?

the curl commend used to download the file

curl “http://192.168.1.1/html/management/downloadconfigfile.conf?RequestFile=/html/management/cfgfile.asp” -H “Cookie: SessionID_R3=dsadwdwqdasdwasdawd” –data “csrf_token=saddasdwa… Continue reading Is it possible to exfiltrate a router config file to server using csrf ajax?