Metasploit Wrap-up

Nine! Nine new modules! Ah ha ha! With the coming of autumn here in the Northern hemisphere, the nights are getting longer, and the hacking is getting stronger. We’ve really got something for everybody in this release, from IoT to infrastructure, Windows, and Linux; everyone’s pretty...

Ring's Flying In-Home Camera Drone Escalates Privacy Worries

Ring’s newly announced robot drone – a connected device that flies around homes taking security footage – is causing privacy experts’ concerns to take off. Amazon on Thursday unveiled the Always Home Cam as part of its Ring division, which will cost $249.99 and starts shipping next year. The...

Looking for sophisticated malware in IoT devices

One of the motivations for this post is to encourage other researchers who are interested in this topic to join in, to share ideas and knowledge and to help build more capabilities in order to better protect our smart devices. Research background Smart watches, smart home devices and even smart...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs truncate information disclosure vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1130 Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs truncate information disclosure vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Littlefs filesystem functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKET_MMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1134 Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKETMMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure...

Vectra and Microsoft join forces to step up detection and response

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Click here to learn more about MISA. Traditional security operations center SOC processes typically involve a wide variety of disparate event notification tools that force overworked analysts to battl...

Mozi Botnet Accounts for Majority of IoT Traffic

The Mozi botnet, a peer-2-peer P2P malware known previously for taking over Netgear, D-Link and Huawei routers, has swollen in size to account for 90 percent of observed traffic flowing to and from all internet of things IoT devices, according to researchers. IBM X-Force noticed Mozi’s spike with...

A step closer to stronger federal IoT security

On Tuesday September 15th, the US House unanimously passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act H.R. 1668. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Kelly and Hurd, would require federal procurement and use of IoT devices to conform to basic security requirements. The version passed by the House makes severa...

Bluetooth Spoofing Bug Affects Billions of IoT Devices

A team of academic researchers have discovered a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE vulnerability that allows spoofing attacks that could affect the way humans and machines carry out tasks. It potentially impacts billions of Internet of Things IoT devices, researchers said, and remains unpatched in Android...

IPTV encoder devices contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in various Video Over IP Internet Protocol encoder devices, also known as IPTV/H.264/H.265 video encoders. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and perform other unauthorized actions on a vulnerable system...

Top Security and Data Privacy Regulations for Financial Services

Regulatory compliance has become an increasingly more important part of the financial services industry in recent years. And it’s a trend that’s likely to continue due to the upsurge in cloud computing, the use of mobile applications, and a shift to IoT devices, all of which are driving exponenti...

CVE-2020-3617

u'Buffer over-read Issue in Q6 testbus framework due to diag packet length is not completely validated before accessing the field and leads to Information disclosure.' in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in Kamorta, Nicobar, QCS605, QCS610,...

Information disclosure

u'Buffer over-read Issue in Q6 testbus framework due to diag packet length is not completely validated before accessing the field and leads to Information disclosure.' in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in Kamorta, Nicobar, QCS605, QCS610,...

Design/Logic Flaw

u'During the error occurrence in capture request, the buffer is freed and later accessed causing the camera APP to fail due to memory use-after-free' in Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in Bitra, Kamorta, QCS605, Saipan, SDM710, SM8250, SXR2130...

CVE-2020-3679

CVE-2020-3679 affects Qualcomm Snapdragon components (including Snapdragon Auto/Compute/Mobile etc.) where, after ASLR is enabled in QTEE, some code remains mapped at a fixed known address. This exposes local attack surfaces and can lead to confidentiality impact (per CVSS), with code execution p...

CVE-2020-3674

CVE-2020-3674 is a vulnerability affecting Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms where information can leak to userspace due to improper transfer of data from kernel to userspace. The NVD description aggregates impact as partial information disclosure without kernel integrity or availability impact, with...

CVE-2020-3634

The CVE-2020-3634 issue is a hardware/firmware vulnerability affecting multiple Snapdragon generations (e.g., APQ8053, MDM9xxx, SDM6/7/8 series, QCS/QMX lines) where a read overflow results from an improper length check during decoding of Generic NAS transport/EMM info. The root cause is an impro...

CVE-2020-3617

u'Buffer over-read Issue in Q6 testbus framework due to diag packet length is not completely validated before accessing the field and leads to Information disclosure.' in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in Kamorta, Nicobar, QCS605, QCS610,...

CVE-2020-11129

u'During the error occurrence in capture request, the buffer is freed and later accessed causing the camera APP to fail due to memory use-after-free' in Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in Bitra, Kamorta, QCS605, Saipan, SDM710, SM8250, SXR2130...

CVE-2020-11124

CVE-2020-11124 is a use-after-free in the Qualcomm Snapdragon diag client map table caused by reallocation of the list when the max client limit is exceeded. Affected are Snapdragon Auto, Compute, Consumer IOT, Industrial IOT, Mobile, and related Qualcomm platforms (e.g., MDM9607, Nicobar, QCS404...