Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022.  Below is the list […]

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February 17, 2023
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Over 30k Internet-Exposed QNAP NAS hosts impacted by CVE-2022-27596 flaw

Censys found 30,000 internet-facing QNAP appliances potentially impacted by a recently disclosed critical code injection flaw. On January 30, Taiwanese vendor QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that affects QNAP NAS devices. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious code […]

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February 2, 2023
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QNAP addresses a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning customers to install QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices. QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that affects QNAP NAS devices. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious code […]

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January 31, 2023
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Experts warn of a surge of attacks exploiting a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE (CVE-2021-35394)

Experts warn of a spike in the attacks that between August and October 2022 attempted to exploit a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE (CVE-2021-35394). Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that between August and October 2022 the number of attacks that attempted to exploit a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE (CVE-2021-35394) (CVSS score 9.8) accounted for more than […]

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January 26, 2023
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A couple of bugs can be chained to hack Netcomm routers

A couple of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm rourers, experts warn of their potential exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities discovered in the Netcomm routers are a a stack based buffer overflow and an authentication bypass, respectively tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874. Both issues impact the Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions […]

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January 18, 2023
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T95 Android TV Box sold on Amazon hides sophisticated malware

Expert discovered that the T95 Android TV box, available for sale on Amazon and AliExpress, came with sophisticated pre-installed malware. Security researcher, Daniel Milisic, discovered that the T95 Android TV box he purchased on Amazon was infected with sophisticated pre-installed malware. This Android TV box model is available on Amazon and AliExpress for as low […]

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January 16, 2023
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