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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Co-ordination is key.

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xHelper, the Unkillable Android malware that re-Installs after factory reset

Security Affairs

Upon the installation, the malicious app registers itself as a foreground service and extracts an encrypted payload that gathers information about the victim’s device (android_id, manufacturer, model, firmware version, etc.) and sends it to a server under the control of the attackers ([link]. ” continues the report.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

Non-glibc C standard library. Example: Netgear N300 a.k.a. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Let's find the missing library and add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Is a MIPS Linux firmware.

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

Non-glibc C standard library. Example: Netgear N300 a.k.a. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Let's find the missing library and add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Is a MIPS Linux firmware.