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Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating

WIRED Threat Level

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

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Win the connected and autonomous car race while protecting data privacy

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To enable this revolution, automobile manufacturers and their supply chain partners have rapidly adopted new technologies to better serve customers and win competitive advantages: Embedding high-speed connectivity in vehicles to improve customer experience and entertainment as well as real-time diagnostics and OTA updates.

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Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Security Affairs

The malicious code attempt to determine if it is running in a honeypot , then it downloads the payload and changes its permission settings to allow its execution. In order to determine what miner to deliver, the bot collects system information, such as manufacturer, hardware details, and processor architecture. The script for a.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The purpose of the script is to optimize the mining module by querying the information about the CPU through the reading of the “ /proc/cpu ” and when the manufacturer is retrieved the script provides to add some specific registry values depending by the vendor through the Model-Specific Register utility “ wrmsr ”.

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Maybe don’t call Saul? Over 30,000 VoIP devices identifiable worldwide, some with suspected vulnerabilities

Security Affairs

Our research shows that large and small manufacturers are identifiable, with Aastra-Mitel topping the list. Aastra-Mitel tops the manufacturer list, the United States leads the list among countries, and London tops the chart among cities. Devices made by the US manufacturer Polycom, a subsidiary of Plantronics Inc., What we did.

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Exclusive: MalwareMustDie analyzes a new IoT malware dubbed Linux/ AirDropBot

Security Affairs

But let’s go back to the beginning of the story when my very good friend @0xrb found in his honeypot this new “ Mirai like ” Linux malware, which has important differences with the Mirai implementation. The beginning of the story: another IoT malware in the wild?

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APT Attacks & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. For example, a honeypot data server can be established with an enticing name such as “Research Archive” or “Financial Records” and alerts can be generated as soon as an attacker attempts to explore the contents. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools.

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