Tag: Hardware
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Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes
An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite.A March 2021 firmware integration error routed seed generation to a…
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Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators.Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019.The…
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The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/
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Recon-Only SSH Attack Leaves No Malware but Signals a Second-Stage Intrusion
Recon-only activity on SSH is not harmless background noise. A recent honeypot session shows an automated Go-based bot logging in as root, exhaustively grading host hardware for cryptomining suitability, then exiting without dropping a single binary. Cowrie, which exposes a realistic fake Linux shell and records full command transcripts, logged a connection from 91.92.40.13 that…
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Thousands of Data Center Controllers Open to Takeover
A host of Internet-exposed remote hardware management processors are subject to offline password-cracking attacks, and adversaries have taken note. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/flaw-exposes-data-centers-server-takeover
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IoT Sector Given Final EU Cyber Resilience Act Guidance
Incident Reporting Starts Sept. 11, Other Mandates Wait Until Dec. 11, 2027. The European Commission published final guidance for complying with the Cyber Resilience Act, a 2024 law that aims to boost the cybersecurity of software and internet-connected hardware products. The greatest change from a previous draft is which software falls within the CRA’s scope.…
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Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process
A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device’s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process.If that happens, Tengu’s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force.Tengu supports 25 distributed denial-of-service (…
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MSPs can avoid the AI hardware cost spiral with cloud desktops
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/perspective/msps-can-avoid-the-ai-hardware-cost-spiral-with-cloud-desktops
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MSPs can avoid the AI hardware cost spiral with cloud desktops
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/perspective/msps-can-avoid-the-ai-hardware-cost-spiral-with-cloud-desktops
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Microsoft Introduces KMS Hardware-Secured for Windows Server Activation
Microsoft has introduced KMS Hardware-Secured, an upcoming enhancement to Windows Server activation that utilizes Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-based attestation to validate Key Management Service (KMS) hosts before they can activate Windows devices. Announced in a July 2022 Windows IT Pro Blog post, this initiative addresses risks related to spoofed, cloned, or otherwise untrusted KMS infrastructure.…
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BSI-Zulassung für Thales Luna 7: Hardware-Sicherheit für Behörden und KRITIS
Die Architektur der Luna-7-Systeme unterstützt zudem Funktionen wie Remote-Management und Clustering. Damit können Organisationen ihre kryptografischen Ressourcen zentral verwalten First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/bsi-zulassung-fuer-thales-luna-7-hardware-sicherheit-fuer-behoerden-und-kritis/a45844/
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Yubico Launches YubiKey 5.8 With Hardware-Backed Authorization for AI Agent Workflows
Yubico has released the YubiKey firmware version 5.85.85.8, expanding its hardware security key platform beyond phishing-resistant authentication. This update introduces verifiable, hardware-backed authorization for digital signatures, identity wallets, payment confirmations, and AI agent approval workflows. Announced on July 21, 2026, this firmware update aims to help enterprises verify not only who accesses an application but…
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New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit
A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center’s power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in.That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 2026, the IACR’s hardware-security…
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Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop
A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/21/hdd-self-encrypting-drive-security/
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LG Monitors Silently Install McAfee Adware on Windows PCs With Full System Access
Concerns have arisen regarding LG monitors that reportedly trigger the silent installation of an LG companion application on Windows PCs. This installation is followed by promotional prompts for a McAfee security trial, raising issues related to device-software delivery mechanisms, user consent, and the permissions granted to automatically installed applications. Gamers Nexus, a YouTube hardware-testing outlet,…
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AI Hardware, App Store Shifts, and Security Scares Define This Week in Tech
Catch up on the week’s biggest tech news, including Google’s app store shakeup, Apple’s AI expansion, OpenAI’s hardware plans, and critical security threats. The post AI Hardware, App Store Shifts, and Security Scares Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-hardware-app-store-shifts-and-security-scares-define-this-week-in-tech/
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Why programming true randomness in emulators is a developer worst nightmare
Asking a deterministic machine to behave indeterministically is the cleanest paradox in software engineering, and emulator developers live inside it every working day. The job description sounds reasonable until you read it twice: recreate, with mathematical precision, a piece of silicon that was never mathematically precise to begin with, reproducing on commodity hardware the analog…
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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors
Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/13/hardware-security-ai-assistant-hidden-backdoors/
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Microsoft Tests AI-Powered Copilot Tool to Diagnose Windows 11 Performance Issues
Microsoft is gradually rolling out an optional Copilot feature called PC Insights, which provides the AI assistant with access to real-time information about Windows 11 hardware and performance. This feature, first reported by Windows Latest, is currently being tested with users in the United States and is not yet widely available. PC Insights aims to…
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Sicherheitschip »Made in Germany« dient als Vertrauensanker für vernetzte Geräte
Management Summary Fraunhofer IIS, AISEC und EMFT stellen ein RISC-V Secure Element vor, das als vertrauenswürdiger Sicherheitsanker für vernetzte Geräte dient. Der Chip wurde vollständig in Deutschland designt und gefertigt und stärkt damit Transparenz, technologische Souveränität und Vertrauen entlang der Wertschöpfungskette. Die Open-Source-Hardware-Basis OpenTitan ermöglicht überprüfbare Sicherheit, langfristige Verfügbarkeit und flexible Anpassbarkeit an unterschiedliche Geräteklassen….…
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Parrot 7.3 released With new menu system and smoother dayday use
Parrot 7.3 arrives focused on refinement rather than a tool glut, rebuilding all editions to deliver perceptible gains on modern hardware and a smoother desktop experience. Released only months after its predecessor, this update concentrates on system-level improvements: optimized builds for newer CPUs, a rewritten menu stack in Go that enables one”‘click installs from the…
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Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices
Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards.The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the firmware that runs security cameras, drones, industrial controllers, hardware crypto wallets, and…
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Quantum Breakthroughs Compress Post-Quantum Computing Timeline
Microsoft, Google and AWS cite major gains in reliability and error correction.. Rapid advances in quantum hardware, AI-assisted error correction and fault-tolerant architectures from Microsoft, Google and Amazon are accelerating expectations for practical quantum computing, increasing pressure on organizations to adopt crypto-agility and prepare for post-quantum encryption. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/quantum-breakthroughs-compress-post-quantum-computing-timeline-a-32137
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EU-Grenzsystem EES: Technikprobleme, Schlangen, Chaos zu Beginn der Urlaubszeit
Tags: HardwareEuropas neues Einreisesystem kämpft zum denkbar ungünstigsten Zeitpunkt mit fehlender Hardware, überhitzten Scannern und Wartezeiten bis zu dreieinhalb Stunden. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/eu-grenzsystem-ees-technikprobleme-schlangen-chaos-zu-beginn-der-urlaubszeit-2606-210338.html
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Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Starts With Credentials
Today’s encrypted data, such as credentials, may no longer remain confidential in the future because the public-key cryptography protecting it will soon be broken by quantum computers. Although no machine today can break elliptic curve cryptography or RSA, quantum hardware is advancing rapidly and will inevitably change how organizations protect their data. Ciphertext and credentials…
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Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference
Organizations that run open-weight models on hardware they own operate GPU fleets spread across clouds, neoclouds, and on-premise data centers. Each fleet handles model … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/26/modelplane-open-source-control-plane-ai-inference/
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Betriebssystem: Fractal OS vereinfacht Suche nach Hardware-Sicherheitslücken
Tags: HardwareBetriebssysteme stören die Suche nach Hardware-Sicherheitslücken. Ein Forscher schrieb deshalb ein eigenes Betriebssystem mit ungewohnten Features. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/betriebssystem-fractal-os-vereinfacht-suche-nach-hardware-sicherheitsluecken-2606-210034.html
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Interview mit Tuncay Sandikci, Director MX B2B bei Samsung »Mobile Geräte sind eine strategische Entscheidung«
Smartphones und Tablets sind in vielen Unternehmen zentrale Arbeitswerkzeuge und Schnittstelle für Anwendungen, Daten und digitale Identitäten. Gleichzeitig wächst der Bedarf an sicheren Mobility-Lösungen. Samsung setzt dabei neben leistungsfähiger Hardware auf Security-Plattformen, Mobility Services und AI-gestütztes Device Management. Tuncay Sandikci, Director MX B2B bei Samsung, erklärt, welche Rolle Smartphones zukünftig im Enterprise-Umfeld spielen. First seen…
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Interview mit Tuncay Sandikci, Director MX B2B bei Samsung »Mobile Geräte sind eine strategische Entscheidung«
Smartphones und Tablets sind in vielen Unternehmen zentrale Arbeitswerkzeuge und Schnittstelle für Anwendungen, Daten und digitale Identitäten. Gleichzeitig wächst der Bedarf an sicheren Mobility-Lösungen. Samsung setzt dabei neben leistungsfähiger Hardware auf Security-Plattformen, Mobility Services und AI-gestütztes Device Management. Tuncay Sandikci, Director MX B2B bei Samsung, erklärt, welche Rolle Smartphones zukünftig im Enterprise-Umfeld spielen. First seen…
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Week in review: 74k Fortinet firewall credentials stolen, Splunk Enterprise RCE under active attack
Tags: attack, backdoor, breach, credentials, firewall, fortinet, Hardware, network, rce, remote-code-execution, WeeklyReviewHere’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight Deep learning … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/21/week-in-review-74k-fortinet-firewall-credentials-stolen-splunk-enterprise-rce-under-active-attack/