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Microsoft warns of BadAlloc flaws in OT, IoT devices

Security Affairs

Microsoft researchers are warning of major security vulnerabilities affecting OT and IoT devices and high-risks for businesses using them. Researchers from Microsoft’s Section 52 team recently uncovered several critical memory allocation flaws, collectively tracked as BadAlloc , affecting IoT and OT devices.

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Kaiji, a new Linux malware targets IoT devices in the wild

Security Affairs

Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.”

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. And what then are the tools and knowledge that you need to get started hacking IoT devices. Funny thing.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. And what then are the tools and knowledge that you need to get started hacking IoT devices. Funny thing.

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UNCOVERING VULNERABILITIES IN CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES: MAYHEM, MATRIXSSL, AND WOLFSSL

ForAllSecure

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. Fuzzing WolfSSL.

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Cryptographic Libraries: Mayhem, MatrixSSL, And WolfSSL (CVE-2019-13470)

ForAllSecure

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. Fuzzing WolfSSL.