“Healthcare providers continue to be high-value targets for attackers. This reality, combined with the diversity of medical IoT devices and their inherent vulnerabilities, points to a real need for device security that is purpose-built for healthcare use cases,” said Ed Lee, research director, IoT and Intelligent Edge Security, IDC. Ed Lee “The ability to defend … Read more
Dec 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Ad Fraud Germany’s Federal Office of Information Security (BSI) has announced that it has disrupted a malware operation called BADBOX that came preloaded on at least 30,000 internet-connected devices sold across the country. In a statement published earlier this week, authorities said they severed the communications between the devices and … Read more
Security researchers have uncovered a new surveillance tool that they say has been used by Chinese law enforcement to collect sensitive information from Android devices in China. The tool, named “EagleMsgSpy,” was discovered by researchers at U.S. cybersecurity firm Lookout. The company said at the Black Hat Europe conference on Wednesday that it had acquired … Read more
Nearly a decade after Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” scandal rocked the automotive industry, a new wave of scrutiny is sweeping across multiple car manufacturers. The UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has launched an investigation into “defeat devices” suspected of hiding the true emissions of 47 car models from 11 manufacturers. As concerns mount, UK drivers could … Read more
IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: “Any threat actor using the CovertNetwork-1658 infrastructure could conduct password spraying campaigns at … Read more
