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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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Edge Devices Face Surge in Mass Brute-Force Password Attacks

Data Breach Today

Scale of Long-Running Attacks 'Unprecedented,' Warns The Shadowserver Foundation Honeypots designed to track malicious internet activity have detected a surge in brute-force password login attempts against edge devices, and especially - but not exclusively - targeting equipment manufactured by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti and SonicWall, said The Shadowserver (..)

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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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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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Vulnerability Recap 11/4/24 – Fourteen-Year Bug Finally Gets Patched

eSecurity Planet

Sysdig discovered the threat when it found in its cloud honeypot a strange bucket using a compromised account. These flaws could particularly affect smart devices in manufacturing and supply chain environments. The threat actors then stash any stolen data in a previous victim’s S3 bucket.

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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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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.