Tag: router
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Vernetzte Haushalte sind leichte Beute für Cyberkriminelle
Der Durchschnittshaushalt wird 29-mal am Tag über das Internet der Dinge angegriffen. Die Anzahl der vernetzten Geräte pro Haushalt steigt auf 22. Smart-TVs, Streaming-Boxen, Router und Kameras das Internet-of-Things-Ökosystem (IoT) in Haushalten wächst. Mit ihm nimmt auch die Gefahr dramatisch zu, dass Verbraucher Opfer von Cyberangriffen werden. Angreifer nutzen verstärkt Automatisierung, unsichere Firmware… First seen…
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Vernetzte Haushalte sind leichte Beute für Cyberkriminelle
Der Durchschnittshaushalt wird 29-mal am Tag über das Internet der Dinge angegriffen. Die Anzahl der vernetzten Geräte pro Haushalt steigt auf 22. Smart-TVs, Streaming-Boxen, Router und Kameras das Internet-of-Things-Ökosystem (IoT) in Haushalten wächst. Mit ihm nimmt auch die Gefahr dramatisch zu, dass Verbraucher Opfer von Cyberangriffen werden. Angreifer nutzen verstärkt Automatisierung, unsichere Firmware… First seen…
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Cyberbedrohungen in vernetzten Haushalten haben sich im letzten Jahr verdreifacht
Smart-TVs, Streaming-Boxen, Router und Kameras das Internet-of-Things-Ökosystem (IoT) in Haushalten wächst. Mit ihm nimmt auch die Gefahr dramatisch zu, dass Verbraucher Opfer von Cyberangriffen werden. Angreifer nutzen verstärkt Automatisierung, unsichere Firmware und veraltete Geräte, um digitale Haushalte in großem Umfang zu kompromittieren. Zu diesem Schluss kommen Bitdefender und Netgear im aktuellen ‘2025 IoT Security […]…
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Australia warns of BadCandy infections on unpatched Cisco devices
The Australian government is warning about ongoing cyberattacks against unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country to infect routers with the BadCandy webshell. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australia-warns-of-badcandy-infections-on-unpatched-cisco-devices/
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Typo hackers sneak cross-platform credential stealer into 10 npm packages
Payload for IP fingerprinting and credential theft: Once the fake CAPTCHA interaction occurs, the installer sends the victim’s IP address to the attacker’s server, a step that allows tracking, geofencing, and exclusion of unwanted targets.It then downloads the payload from the same host, which is a 24 MB Pyinstaller-packed application that contains hundreds of thousands…
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Hackers Target 81% of Routers with Default Admin Passwords
The latest 2025 Broadband Genie router security survey reveals alarming trends in network security awareness among internet users. This year’s results, while showing marginal improvements in some areas, underscore the persistent gap between knowing how to secure a network and actually taking action. The research team conducted their fourth comprehensive router security survey to compare…
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Pwn2Own Ireland 2025: The Hacks, The Winners, and The Big Payouts
Hackers earned over $1 million at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 in Cork, breaching printers, routers, NAS devices, and more as Summoning Team claimed Master of Pwn. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/pwn2own-ireland-2025-hacks-winners-payouts/
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Researchers warn of critical flaws in TP-Link routers
No active exploitation has been spotted, but the vendor and researchers advise users to apply updates immediately.; First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/researchers-warn-critical-flaws-tp-link-routers/803744/
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Breach Roundup: the Qilin Hack That Wasn’t
Also, Envoy Air Confirms Data Compromise Following Clop Extortion Campaign. This week, Qilin didn’t hack a Spanish tax agency, Nexperia standoff, Envoy Air confirmed a data compromise, Experian Netherlands fined 2.7M euros, ToolShell used to breach global networks, flaws in TP-Link Omada and Festa VPN routers and a New York firm settled a cybersecurity investigation.…
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Major Vulnerabilities Found in TP-Link VPN Routers
Forescout researchers discovered critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in several TP-Link VPN routers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vulnerabilities-tplink-vpn-routers/
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PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge.PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign targeting routers from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology with the goal of corralling them into a network for an as-yet-undetermined purpose.The TLS-based ELF implant, at its core,…
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Hard-coded credentials found in Moxa industrial security appliances, routers (CVE-2025-6950)
Moxa has fixed 5 vulnerabilities in its industrial network security appliances and routers, including a remotely exploitable flaw (CVE-2025-6950) that may result in complete … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/20/moxa-routers-hard-coded-credentials-cve-2025-6950/
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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PolarEdge C2 Communication via Custom Binary Protocol with Custom TLS Server
In early 2025, security researchers unveiled a sophisticated botnet implant named PolarEdge, which relies on a bespoke TLS server and a proprietary binary protocol to carry out unauthenticated command-and-control operations. PolarEdge first emerged in January 2025 when honeypots monitoring Cisco routers captured suspicious traffic exploiting CVE-2023-20118. Attackers used a crafted HTTP request with the User-Agent…
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PolarEdge C2 Communication via Custom Binary Protocol with Custom TLS Server
In early 2025, security researchers unveiled a sophisticated botnet implant named PolarEdge, which relies on a bespoke TLS server and a proprietary binary protocol to carry out unauthenticated command-and-control operations. PolarEdge first emerged in January 2025 when honeypots monitoring Cisco routers captured suspicious traffic exploiting CVE-2023-20118. Attackers used a crafted HTTP request with the User-Agent…
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Aisuru’s 30 Tbps botnet traffic crashes through major US ISPs
Tags: attack, botnet, breach, cybercrime, data-breach, ddos, firmware, infrastructure, iot, malicious, router, serviceFrom Mirai roots to proxy sales: Aisuru is not new. Its foundations trace back to leaked code of the Mirai IoT botnet from 2016, which held “KrebsOnSecurity,” the investigative blog run by Krebs, offline for four days. “The 2016 assault was so large that Akamai which was providing pro-bono DDoS protection for KrebsOnSecurity at the…
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Aisuru’s 30 Tbps botnet traffic crashes through major US ISPs
Tags: attack, botnet, breach, cybercrime, data-breach, ddos, firmware, infrastructure, iot, malicious, router, serviceFrom Mirai roots to proxy sales: Aisuru is not new. Its foundations trace back to leaked code of the Mirai IoT botnet from 2016, which held “KrebsOnSecurity,” the investigative blog run by Krebs, offline for four days. “The 2016 assault was so large that Akamai which was providing pro-bono DDoS protection for KrebsOnSecurity at the…
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Researchers Warn RondoDox Botnet is Weaponizing Over 50 Flaws Across 30+ Vendors
Tags: botnet, cctv, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, Internet, malware, network, router, vulnerabilityMalware campaigns distributing the RondoDox botnet have expanded their targeting focus to exploit more than 50 vulnerabilities across over 30 vendors.The activity, described as akin to an “exploit shotgun” approach, has singled out a wide range of internet-exposed infrastructure, including routers, digital video recorders (DVRs), network video recorders (NVRs), CCTV systems, web servers, and First…
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RondoDox botnet fires ‘exploit shotgun’ at nearly every router and internet-connected home device
56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers “¦ time to run for cover First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/rondodox_botnet_fires_exploit_shotgun/
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Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths
With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/cisco_multi_datacenter/
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RondoDox Botnet Targets Over 50 Vulnerabilities to Compromise Routers, CCTV Systems, and Web Servers
The RondoDox campaign’s “exploit shotgun” method leverages over 50 vulnerabilities across more than 30 vendors to infiltrate network devices, highlighting the urgent need for rapid patching and continuous monitoring. The first detected RondoDox intrusion on June 15, 2025, reused a command”injection vulnerability disclosed at Pwn2Own Toronto 2022: CVE-2023-1389, which targets the WAN interface of TP-Link…
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Edge device security: The frontline of your network
Edge devices such as routers, IoT sensors, smart cameras, and industrial controllers are the gateways between your network and the outside world. Their role in processing data closer to the source makes them powerful, but it also places them directly in the line of cyber threats. As businesses rely more on distributed networks, securing edge……
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Edge device security: The frontline of your network
Edge devices such as routers, IoT sensors, smart cameras, and industrial controllers are the gateways between your network and the outside world. Their role in processing data closer to the source makes them powerful, but it also places them directly in the line of cyber threats. As businesses rely more on distributed networks, securing edge……
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QNAP verteilt kostenfreies Router-Update gegen Ransomware – QHora Router unterstützen IPS und verbessern Schutz vor Ransomware
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/qhora-router-unterstuetzen-ips-und-verbessern-schutz-vor-ransomware-a-f12c04c7e14e479149896e8786a44e20/
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Silent Smishing: Abuse of Cellular Router APIs in Phishing Campaigns
Attackers exploit vulnerable cellular routers to send large-scale smishing messages that bypass traditional defenses. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/silent-smishing-abuse-of-cellular-router-apis-in-phishing-campaigns/
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DrayTek warns of remote code execution bug in Vigor routers
Networking hardware maker DrayTek released an advisory to warn about a security vulnerability in several Vigor router models that could allow remote, unauthenticated actors to execute perform arbitrary code. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/draytek-warns-of-remote-code-execution-bug-in-vigor-routers/
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TOTOLINK X6000R Routers Hit by Three Vulnerabilities Allowing Remote Code Execution
Three critical security flaws were discovered in firmware version V9.4.0cu.1360_B20241207 of the TOTOLINK X6000R router released on March 28, 2025. These vulnerabilities range from argument injection and command injection to a security bypass that can lead to remote code execution. Attackers can crash devices, corrupt system files, and execute arbitrary commands without authentication. Users must…