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New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

August 27, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, black lotus labs, bronze silhouette, christopher wray, cve-2024-39717, cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, insidious taurus, Internet of Things (IoT), kv-botnet, Latest Warnings, lumen technologies, michael horka, national security agency, ryan english, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice, versa director 22.1.4, volt typhoon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:26:41 +0000

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

July 25, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, adrian crismaru, avrecon, black lotus labs, DomainTools.com, Intel471, Internet of Things (IoT), lumen, riley kilmer, socksescort, spur.us, Web Fraud 2.0, wiremo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:20:55 +0000

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.

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Back to Basics: Why We Need to Encourage More Secure IoT Development

August 22, 2018 admin bug bounty, ddos, Internet of Things, Internet of Things (IoT), Security, Zero Day Initiative

Credit to Author: Mike Gibson| Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:05:33 +0000

The Internet of Things (IoT) is radically reshaping the way we live and work. Before our very eyes, organizations are becoming more agile, efficient and cost effective to run, all while consumers marvel at the wonders of the smart home, fitness trackers and connected cars. There’s just one major problem: Much of this new infrastructure…

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