CVE-2019-10488

CVE-2019-10488 describes a Null pointer dereference in the Qualcomm Snapdragon media parsing when handling nonstandard clips; the issue affects a broad range of Snapdragon platforms (Auto, Compute, IoT, Mobile, Wearables, etc.) across many SD/SoC families listed in the description. Root cause is ...

Pwning a Smart Car Charger, Building a Botnet

…or Why We Don’t Build Commercial IoT on a Raspberry Pi. A positive story of disclosure and remediation. We’re quite into our electric vehicles at PTP, so we started hunting for a smart car charger. There are plenty of industrial chargers out there and some research has been done in the past. We...

PT-2019-11926

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Consumer IOT versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Industrial IOT...

PT-2019-11884

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Consumer IOT versions affected versions not specified Qualcomm Snapdragon Industrial IOT...

Microsoft Intelligent Security Association grows to more than 80 members

Sometimes an idea sparks, and it feels so natural, so organic, that it takes on a life of its own and surprises you by how fast it grows. The Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA was one of these ideas. It was born out of a desire to be easy to do business with and be a better partner ...

Valve Source Engine, Fortnite Servers Crippled By Gafgyt Variant

A new Gafgyt variant is adding vulnerable internet of things IoT devices to its botnet arsenal and using them to cripple gaming servers worldwide. The newly-discovered variant is capable of launching a variety of denial-of-service DoS attacks against the Valve Source Engine, a video game engine...

Advantech WISE-PaaS/RMM

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WISE-PaaS/RMM Vulnerabilities: Path Traversal, Missing Authorization, Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference, SQL Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful...

IoT security will set innovation free: Azure Sphere general availability scheduled for February 2020

Today, at the IoT Solutions World Congress, we announced that Azure Sphere will be generally available in February of 2020. General availability will mark our readiness to fulfill our security promise at scale, and to put the power of Microsoft’s expertise to work for our customers every day—by...

Ransomware, Mobile Malware Attacks to Surge in 2020

Cyber threats like targeted ransomware, mobile malware and sophisticated phishing attacks will escalate in 2020, researchers warn. However, defenses like artificial intelligence AI, cyber insurance and faster security response will also increase, helping defend companies against imminent threats,...

HomePwn - Swiss Army Knife for Pentesting of IoT Devices

HomePwn is a framework that provides features to audit and pentesting devices that company employees can use in their day-to-day work and inside the same working environment. It is designed to find devices in the home or office, take advantage of certain vulnerabilities to read or send data to...

Objections to IoT regulation. A rational reply

I often hear objections to consumer IoT regulation, specifically IoT security regulation. It's typically from industry lobby groups that have a vested interest in keeping regulation very ‘light touch’. Their mantra is: It’ll stifle innovation and increase cost I strongly disagree, and here’s why...

Bedside Hotel Robot Hacked to Stream In-Room Video

A Japanese hotel chain called “Henn na” that uses robots in lieu of human staff is wrestling with bedside bots that researchers hacked to view video footage from guest rooms. The chain’s parent, HIS Group, owns 10 locations throughout Japan that leverage robots with facial recognition capability...

Traditional perimeter-based network defense is obsolete—transform to a Zero Trust model

Digital transformation has made the traditional perimeter-based network defense obsolete. Your employees and partners expect to be able to collaborate and access organizational resources from anywhere, on virtually any device, without impacting their productivity. Customers expect personalized...

IoT-Implant-Toolkit - Toolkit For Implant Attack Of IoT Devices

IoT-Implant-Toolkit is a framework of useful tools for malware implantation research of IoT devices. It is a toolkit consisted of essential software tools on firmware modification, serial port debugging, software analysis and stable spy clients. With an easy-to-use and extensible shell-like...

Cotopaxi - Set Of Tools For Security Testing Of Internet Of Things Devices Using Specific Network IoT Protocols

Set of tools for security testing of Internet of Things devices using protocols like: CoAP, DTLS, HTCPCP, mDNS, MQTT, SSDP. Installation: Simply clone code from git: https://github.com/Samsung/cotopaxi Requirements: Currently Cotopaxi works only with Python 2.7.x, but future versions will work al...

IoT: a malware story

Since 2008, cyber-criminals have been creating malware to attack IoT-devices, such as routers and other types of network equipment. You will find a lot of statistics on this on Securelist, most notably, here and here. The main problem with these IoT/embedded devices is that one simply cannot...

This Week in Security News: How a Partnership can Advance DevSecOps and Cybersecurity Issues in the Midwest and South U.S.

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how Trend Micro’s partnership with Snyk will advance DevSecOps. Also, read about cyber attacks affecting hospitals in Alabama an...

CVE-2019-13120

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...

Security feature bypass

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...

CVE-2019-13120

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...