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The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon (pppd) software that comes installed on almost all Linux based operating systems, as well as powers the firmware… Continue reading Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers
The world of connected consumer electronics, IoT, and smart devices is growing faster than ever with tens of billions of connected devices streaming and sharing data wirelessly over the Internet, but how secure is it?
As we connect everything from cof… Continue reading 125 New Flaws Found in Routers and NAS Devices from Popular Brands
Researchers have discovered a severe vulnerability in Cisco products that could allow attackers to implant persistent backdoor on wide range devices used in enterprises and government networks, including routers, switches, and firewalls.
Dubbed Thrang… Continue reading Flaw Affecting Millions of Cisco Devices Let Attackers Implant Persistent Backdoor
If the connectivity and security of your organization rely on Cisco RV320 or RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers, then you need to immediately install the latest firmware update released by the vendor last week.
Cyber attackers have actively been explo… Continue reading New Exploit Threatens Over 9,000 Hackable Cisco RV320/RV325 Routers Worldwide
A known vulnerability in MikroTik routers is potentially far more dangerous than previously thought.
A cybersecurity researcher from Tenable Research has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) RCE attack for an old directory traversal vulnerability tha… Continue reading New Exploit for MikroTik Router WinBox Vulnerability Gives Full Root Access
Security researchers have discovered even more dangerous capabilities in VPNFilter—the highly sophisticated multi-stage malware that infected 500,000 routers worldwide in May this year, making it much more widespread and sophisticated than earlier.
At… Continue reading VPNFilter Router Malware Adds 7 New Network Exploitation Modules
It turns out that the threat of the massive VPNFilter botnet malware that was discovered late last month is beyond what we initially thought.
Security researchers from Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence have today uncovered more details about VPNFilter … Continue reading Destructive and MiTM Capabilities of VPNFilter Malware Revealed
Shortly after Cisco’s released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the… Continue reading FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers
More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group.
Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit have d… Continue reading Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
Even after being aware of various active cyber attacks against the GPON Wi-Fi routers, if you haven’t yet taken them off the Internet, then be careful—because a new botnet has joined the GPON party, which is exploiting an undisclosed zero-day vulnerabi… Continue reading Hackers are exploiting a new zero-day flaw in GPON routers