How we hacked our colleague’s smart home

In this article, we publish the results of our study of the Fibaro Home Center smart home. We identified vulnerabilities in Fibaro Home Center 2 and Fibaro Home Center Lite version 4.540, as well as vulnerabilities in the online API. An offer you cannot refuse The backbone of any technology compa...

Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users

Robert Mueller will testify, malware wrecks IoT, and more of the week's top security news...

This Week in Security News: Malvertising and Internet of Things Malware

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 a new Internet of Things malware that’s bricked thousands of devices. Also, read about a ransomware family that’s using...

Linux Kernel TCP SACK Denial of Service Vulnerability

Executive Summary Known vulnerabilities exist in the Linux kernel. These vulnerabilities are documented by the following CVEs: CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, and CVE-2019-11479. The purpose of this advisory is to explain the various effects of these vulnerabilities and to provide links to more...

Than Mirai botnet and BrickerBot more powerful IOT killer app still appeared. Behind the developer was actually a 14-year-old Sao years! - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! A new malicious program is through the destruction of the IOT device firmware and let them completely into“bricks”, which is similar in 2017, the destruction of millions of devices BrickerBot malicious programs. This malicious program is known as Silex, which by destroying the IOT devices of th...

Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware

A 14-year-old hacker used a new strain of malware this week to brick up to 4,000 insecure Internet of Things devices – before abruptly shutting down his command and control server. The malware, dubbed Silex, was first discovered by Larry Cashdollar, senior security intelligence response engineer ...

SIRT Advisory: Silexbot Bricking Systems With Known Default Login Credentials

On June 25th, I discovered a new bot named Silexbot on my honeypot. The bot itself is a blunt tool used to destroy IoT devices. Its author, someone who claims to be a 14-year-old boy from Europe, has made his...

NIST Releases Report on Managing IoT Risks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has released the Considerations for Managing Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks report. The publication—the first in a planned series on IoT—aims to help federal agencies and other organizations manage the cybersecurity a...

Movie Tech Review: Child’s Play 2019

A while back, Rik & Kasia Ferguson shared their thoughts on the movie, “Unfriended: The Dark Web.” The dark web and technology in general plays a pivotal role in the movie's plot, so the team decided it would be interesting to have a real-world expert review. Everyone had a lot of fun, and thus...

The HITRUST Common Security Framework: Not Just for Healthcare Anymore

The HITRUST 2019 conference took place last month in Dallas, Texas, and covered important topics such as risk management, compliance, third-party assurance, cybersecurity, medical devices, and the Internet of Things IoT. As speakers and sponsors, we saw much enthusiasm about HITRUST Common Securi...

Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices

More than 2 million connected security cameras, baby monitors and other IoT devices have serious vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed for more than two months – yet they are still without a patch or even any vendor response. Security researcher Paul Marrapese, who disclosed the flaws...

Linux Kernel Bug Knocks PCs, IoT Gadgets and More Offline

Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels by Netflix researchers. Exploitation would interrupt TCP connections and therefore streaming content flows to vulnerable Linux-based PCs putting a crimp in binge-watching, for instance...

Ewon Flexy IoT Router. A Deep dive

First off I would like to thank the techs at PTP for their insights and help during this process. I know what I know, and I don't know what I don’t know, so I asked for help sometimes. I've learned a lot from this project e.g. how XOR works, and how to use IDA to analyse ARM binaries better, so I...

Sharing the Secrets: Pwning an industrial IoT router

I get involved in a lot of IoT and ICS pen tests and found an interesting device on one of them. I didn’t have enough time on the job to go as deep as I wanted, so got PTP to buy a couple to play with. eBay FTW! It’s an Ewon Flexy IoT Router. It’s important to note that local access / public IP...

CVE-2017-10722

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the desktop application used to connect to the device suffers from a stack overflow if more than 26 characters are passed to it as the Wi-Fi password. This application is...

CVE-2017-10721

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the device has Telnet functionality enabled by default. This device acts as an Endoscope camera that allows its users to use it in various industrial systems and settings, car...

CVE-2017-10720

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the desktop application used to connect to the device suffers from a stack overflow if more than 26 characters are passed to it as the Wi-Fi name. This application is installe...

CVE-2017-10719

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the device has default Wi-Fi credentials that are exactly the same for every device. This device acts as an Endoscope camera that allows its users to use it in various...

CVE-2017-10718

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that any malicious user connecting to the device can change the default SSID and password thereby denying the owner an access to his/her own device. This device acts as an Endoscop...

Stack overflow

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the desktop application used to connect to the device suffers from a stack overflow if more than 26 characters are passed to it as the Wi-Fi name. This application is installe...