Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2022
Researchers warn that the Fronton botnet was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. Fronton is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet that was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. In March 2020, the collective of hacktivists called “Digital Revolution” claimed to have hacked a subcontractor to the Russian FSB. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2022
Taiwanese vendor QNAP warned customers of a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks and urges them to install the latest updates. Taiwanese vendor QNAP is asking users to install the latest update on their NAS devices and avoid exposing them on the Internet. The company issued the alert in response to a new wave of DeadBolt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2022
A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. The flaw also affects DNS implementation of all versions of the uClibc-ng […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2022
IoT gizmos make our lives easier, but we forget that these doohickeys are IP endpoints that act as mini-radios. They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2022
Synology warns customers that some of its NAS devices are affected by multiple critical Netatalk vulnerabilities. Synology has warned customers that multiple critical Netatalk vulnerabilities affect some of its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Netatalk is a free, open-source implementation of the Apple Filing Protocol that allows Unix-like operating systems to serve as a file server for macOS computers. QNAP NAS devices support the AFP protocol to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2022
Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns users to update their NAS Firmware to fix Apache HTTP flaws addressed in the Apache HTTP server last month. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns users to update their NAS Firmware to address Apache HTTP vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-22721 and CVE-2022-23943, addressed in the Apache HTTP server in March. “While CVE-2022-22719 and CVE-2022-22720 do […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
Researchers spotted a new variant of the BotenaGo botnet malware that is considered highly evasive and has a zero-detection rate. The BotenaGo botnet was first spotted in November 2021 by researchers at AT&T, the malicious code leverages thirty-three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
QNAP urges customers to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to secure their NAS devices. Taiwanese vendor QNAP urges customers to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to protect their network-attached storage (NAS) devices from attacks. UPnP is an insecure protocol, it uses network UDP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2022
Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. The researchers attribute the botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2022
Wyze Cam devices are affected by three security vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to takeover them and access camera feeds. Bitdefender researchers discovered three security vulnerabilities in the popular Wyze Cam devices that can be exploited by threat actors to execute arbitrary code and access camera feeds. The three flaws reported by the cybersecurity firm […]
