Tag: UPnP
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277,000 routers exposed to Eternal Silence attacks via UPnP
A malicious campaign known as ‘Eternal Silence’ is abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) turns your router into a proxy server used to …
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Billions of devices affected by UPnP vulnerability
Stop us if you’ve heard this before but a researcher has uncovered a new security vulnerability affecting many devices running the …
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UPnP vulnerability lets attackers steal data, scan internal networks
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which is implemented in billions of networked and IoT devices – …
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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices
A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several …
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Ep. 025 – Business Email Compromise and IoT surprises [PODCAST]
We explain how to avoid losing money to the cybercrime known as BEC, short for Business Email Compromise, and our experts give you some …
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Hackers Exploit Chromecast UPnP Router Vulnerability on Smart TVs
Funny story really, Swedish video-game vlogger PewDiePie got some unexpected help boosting subscription numbers when hackers took over …
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Mass router hack exposes millions of devices to potent NSA exploit
More than 45,000 Internet routers have been compromised by a newly discovered campaign that’s designed to open networks to attacks by …
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Why you shouldn’t be worried about UPnP port masking
Last May, security firm Imperva wrote a blog post discussing a new proof of concept for bypassing DDoS mitigation after discovering …
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Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and …
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UPnP joins the ‘just turn it off on consumer devices, already’ club
Universal Plug ‘n’ Play, that eternal feast of the black-hat, has been identified as helping to amplify denial-of-service attacks. …
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New DDoS Attack Method Leverages UPnP
A new DDoS technique is adding a new twist to this common threat and upping the chance that an attack will have an impact on business …
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Over 65,000 Vulnerable Routers Abused by Multi-purpose Proxy Botnet
Attackers abuse the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with routers and uses the devices to create a powerful proxy network …
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