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Highly useful and practical as they are, wireless routers can cost us a lot if we fail to secure them properly. It is not only a few cases of hackers, scammers, and even identity theft that keep on appearing in the daily news headlines. Some of these arise out of the poor security set-up some of […]
On Thursday, June 6th (9:43 am UTC), Europe’s leading mobile providers received a shock when a large chunk of the traffic destined to reach them was misdirected or rerouted to another path by the network of a Chinese state-operated telecom firm, China Telecom. The misdirection of the traffic continued for two hours and even more […]
A new study by researchers Matty Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen revealed five vulnerabilities – collectively named ‘Dragonblood’ – in the WPA3 Wi-Fi standard. Four of the five are considered a severe threat to online security. What does this teach us about trust in our networks? WPA3 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 3) is the latest generation of […]
According to web application security testing specialists, over 25k Linksys Smart WiFi routers are impacted by a vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow hackers remote access without authentication to extensive critical resources on compromised devices. Experts comment that this incident is similar to a security flaw in the firmware of these devices emerged in 2014 […]
Cloud cameras (AKA IP Cameras) provide convenient and easy to use visual monitoring device for offices, houses, and shops of all sizes. It is slowly but surely replacing the bulky and complicated CCTV (closed-circuit television) systems, and for the right reason, primarily due to its easy expandability. However, since this kind of system is always […]
This flaw would allow hackers to perform various malicious activities Cybersecurity and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security Report that a critical vulnerability present in about 20k routers from the manufacturer Orange has resulted in a SSID and WiFi passwords leaking. In addition to the information leaking devices, over 2k routers […]
An attacker could find any device, infect it and make it part of a botnet A critical vulnerability present in a Huawei router widely used by Internet service providers in various parts of the Americas could allow a hacker to track a device and determine if it has default credentials all without the need to […]
Scrape/Parse Pastebin using GO and grammar expression (PEG). Installation $ go get -u github.com/edoz90/pastego Usage Search keywords are case sensitive pastego -s “password,keygen,PASSWORD” You can use boolean operators to reduce false positive pastego -s “quake && ~earthquake, password && ~(php || sudo || Linux || ‘<body>’)” This command will search for bins with quake but not earthquake words and […]
Tenable Research’s cybersecurity researcher has released “By The way,” which is a new PoC (proof-of-concept) RCE attack after identifying a new attack method to exploit an already discovered vulnerability in MikroTik routers. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-14847, is an old directory traversal flaw, which was patched the same day it was detected in April, 2018. […]
Cybercriminals part of a notorious hacking group attacked the PIR Bank of Russia and stole $1m. The hacking was carried out after infiltrating the bank’s systems by compromising an old, outdated router. The router was installed at one of the regional branches of the bank. The money was stolen via the Automated Workstation Client (AWC) […]
Last year, when security researchers tore apart WPA2’s security with KRACK exploit, questions were raised regarding its ability to protect billions of WiFi-compatible devices across the world. As a result, in January 2018, the WiFi Alliance announced a major upgrade to the WiFi security protocol called WPA3 (WiFi Protected Access III). Now, after almost six months […]
Every day, the vast majority of us do our best to not contribute to major global problems. We recycle. We bring our cars in for emissions testing. We stop ourselves from spending $120 on a pair of fake Yeezys and bolstering the counterfeit goods industry. Yes, we are heroes. However, DDoS attack have become a […]
In late May, Cisco security researchers uncovered a router-hacking malware named VPNFilter, which was reported to infect more than 500,000 consumer Wi-Fi devices. At that time, the infected router belonged to companies like TP-Link, Linksys, MikroTik, and Linksys. As per the latest development report, additional device vendors are being targeted by the malware. The new […]
The Cisco security research team has unearthed a hacking attack that targets more than 500,000 consumer Wi-Fi routers. These infected routers can be used to create a massive botnet army and launch a heavyweight cyberattack. As per the findings, this attack seems to be a work of some state-sponsored actor. The malware used to infect […]
Cyber criminals performing a highly sophisticated attack using APT Malware called Slingshot to compromise routers and gain the administrator level access. Slingshot is one of the powerful cyber threat actor that mainly targeting individuals and organization and the major victims belong to Africa and the Middle East. Researchers identified a malicious library function injection technique in the […]
Join us on YouTube or Facebook to learn how hacking works. Rick Ramgattie is a Security Analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, who will help us assess the security of the D-Link DIR-865L router to show how we can chain vulnerabilities in both its web and storage interfaces to get root shell access. This would give an attacker […]
Short Bytes: A new set of CIA documents exposed by Wikileaks describe a firmware called CherryBlossom which can be installed on network routers and compromise the traffic. Wikileaks claims that CherryBlossom is co-developed by SRI International. Affected brands include Apple, Cisco, D-Link, Asus, etc. Routers are important, yet ignored, a piece of our networks. Mostly, […]
Short Bytes: You can reduce the wireless interference for your network by selecting the least congested channel. You can do so on various operating systems like Linux, Android, Windows, and MacOS with the help of external and built-in tools like iwlist, WiFi Analyzer, wavemon, diagnostics utility, etc. A less congested channel means you can achieve […]
The united states’ trade watchdog has sued Taiwan-primarily based D-link, alleging that the lax protection left its merchandise at risk of hackers. The Federal exchange fee (FTC) filed a lawsuit (pdf) towards D-link on Thursday, arguing that the company didn’t put in force necessary security protection in its routers and internet-linked protection cameras that left […]
Android users are always at the target of malicious threat actors. Now, there is a new Android-based Trojan discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers known as Switcher Trojan because of its ability to firstly infect the device’s Wi-Fi routers and then switch users of that infected network to various infected sites. This means, the Trojan doesn’t directly […]
Short Bytes: Linux.Wifatch not only prevents further attacks from router malware, it also shows a message telling the people to change passwords and update the firmware. When you combine the two words router and malware, the end result is just scary. Commonly router malware sneaks into your network and deploys attacks on your systems. Hacked home routers […]