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Experts from Nokia, iboss and Sectigo talk 5G mobile security for internet of things (IoT) devices in this webinar YouTube video (transcript included). Continue reading 5G and IoT: How to Approach the Security Implications
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release. Continue reading Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “Satori” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies. Continue reading ‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty
Early this spring, Russian government-linked hackers used three popular internet of things devices with weak security to access several Microsoft customers’ networks, then tried infiltrating more privileged accounts, researchers announced Monday. The company’s Threat Intelligence center said the STRONTIUM group, also known as APT 28 and Fancy Bear, leveraged weak security in an office printer, video decoders and voice over IP, or VOIP, phone to access wider systems. The attacks occurred as recently as April, Microsoft said, adding that hackers used insecure IoT devices as a means to attempt to break into valuable accounts where they would have found more sensitive data. Microsoft disclosed neither the affected devices, nor which of its customers were impacted. “While much of the industry focuses on the threats of hardware implants, we can see in this example that adversaries are happy to exploit simpler configuration and security issues to achieve their objectives,” Microsoft researchers wrote in their […]
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Can you put your hand on your heart and say the web application your company has built would be able to handle 292,000 requests per second, from 402,000 different IP addresses?
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading IoT botnet launched massive 13-day DDoS attack against streaming service
Mirai activity has nearly doubled between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. Continue reading Mirai Botnet Sees Big 2019 Growth, Shifts Focus to Enterprises
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
HiddenWasp is unique for Linux-based malware in that it targets systems to remotely control them. Continue reading New Linux Malware ‘HiddenWasp’ Borrows from Mirai, Azazel
This week, software flaw exposed most dell computers to remote hacking, Israel neutralizes cyber attack by blowing up a building with hackers, an expert that found hundreds of vulnerable Jenkins plugins, a bug in Mirai code allows crashing C2 serve… Continue reading April 7, 2019 – Hack Naked News #217
This week, software flaw exposed most dell computers to remote hacking, Israel neutralizes cyber attack by blowing up a building with hackers, an expert that found hundreds of vulnerable Jenkins plugins, a bug in Mirai code allows crashing C2 serve… Continue reading April 7, 2019 – Hack Naked News #217