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A 14-year-old hacker bricked at least 4,000 Internet of Things devices with a new strain of malware called Silex this week. Threatpost talks to the researcher who discovered the malware. Continue reading Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.” Continue reading IoT Security Disconnect: As Attacks Spike, Device Patching Still Lags
In the news, BIND comes apart thanks to ancient denial of service vuln, Brickerbot taking out your IoT one device at a time, Intel fix causes reboots and slowdowns, WiFi alliance announces WPA3 and updates to WPA2, hackers exploiting three Microsoft Of… Continue reading BIND, Intel, and Brickerbot – Paul’s Security Weekly #544
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The code behind Satori malware which is a variant of
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Researchers warn of copycat type attacks as exploit code used in Mirai variant goes public. Continue reading Code Used in Zero Day Huawei Router Attack Made Public
The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things (IoT) devices has already more than doubled last year’s total. Continue reading IoT Malware Activity Already More Than Doubled 2016 Numbers
In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network. Continue reading Post-WannaCry, 5.5 Million Devices Still Expose SMB Port
New botnet squadrons wage fiercer, more intense attacks on unsecured IoT devices. Continue reading BrickerBot, the permanent denial-of-service botnet, is back with a vengeance
BrickerBot is a reminder that the frequency and complexity of Linux malware is on the rise Continue reading BrickerBot malware zeroes in on Linux-based IoT devices
A new variety of malicious software is capable of attacking and effectively destroying insecure connected Internet of Things devices, using the same security flaws exploited by the notorious Mirai botnet, a researcher says. It’s not clear how many devices might have been damaged by the BrickerBot malware, Pascal Geenens, the researcher who discovered it, told CyberScoop. But the malware, which attacks the devices by trying to corrupt their firmware and flash memory, is at the very least a powerful proof-of-concept likely to inspire copycats. Geenens, a cybersecurity evangelist for Radware, last month found two varieties of BrickerBot attacking his honeypot — a network of computers left on the internet as bait for hackers — but since the honeypot doesn’t contain any actual IoT devices, he couldn’t be sure exactly what the impact of the attack might be in real life. Geenens speculated the author might be some kind of digital vigilante — aiming to alert the world to the ease […]
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