Botnet
PolarEdge Botnet Hits 25K IoT Devices in Major Cyber Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers at XLab have uncovered a sophisticated infrastructure-as-a-service botnet operation called PolarEdge, which has compromised over 25,000 Internet of Things devices and established...
Botnet
New Botnet ‘Loader-as-a-Service’ Turns Home Routers and IoT into Mirai Farms
CloudSEK has uncovered a sophisticated Loader-as-a-Service botnet campaign spanning the last six months, leveraging exposed command-and-control logs to orchestrate attacks against SOHO routers, embedded...
Cyber Security News
NIST Releases Lightweight Cryptography Standard for IoT Security
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally published Special Publication 800-232, “Ascon-Based Lightweight Cryptography Standards for Constrained Devices,” establishing the first...
IoT
Challenges Of Securing IoT Devices On University Campuses
Cybersecurity is an increasingly pressing concern for higher education. As cybercrime rises, colleges’ high amounts of sensitive data and large, difficult-to-manage IT environments become...
cyber security
New PumaBot Hijacks IoT Devices via SSH Brute-Force for Persistent Access
A sophisticated new malware, dubbed PumaBot, has emerged as a significant threat to Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified this...
Botnet
Mirai Botnet Actively Targeting GeoVision IoT Devices for Command Injection Exploits
The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has identified active exploitation of command injection vulnerabilities in discontinued GeoVision Internet of Things (IoT) devices....
cyber security
Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis of Cryptographically Secured Devices
Electromagnetic (EM) side-channel analysis has emerged as a significant threat to cryptographically secured devices, particularly in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT)....
cyber security
Millions of RSA Keys Exposed, Revealing Serious Exploitable Flaws
A recent study has highlighted a significant vulnerability in RSA keys used across the internet, particularly in IoT devices.
Researchers collected and analyzed a...