Researchers have discovered critical security flaws in connected smart plugs which can give attackers access to a full home network — as well as your email account.
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Bitdefender researchers Dragos Gavrilut, Radu Basaraba, and George Cabau said on Thursday that one particular device uses no encryption and weak default passwords, with no alerts issued to users to change them in the interests of security. Edius pro 9 download.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are products with network capabilities. While these now range from smartphones to fridges, the use of smart plugs is also on the rise.
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IoT-based smart outlets can be used to monitor energy usage, schedule devices to turn on and off at the user’s convenience, and can be used to power and control gadgets including security cameras, smart TVs and coffee makers, among others.
According to the security firm, a popular, but undisclosed, electrical outlet currently on the market not only has poor security in place but is also susceptible to malicious firmware updates which permit attackers to control devices remotely and gain an entry point into your home networks and activity.
To set up the device, users must plug it in, download the accompanying Android or iOS app, and then go through the installation process. The device requests the credentials to the user’s home network and then registers to vendor servers through UDP messages containing the device name, model, and MAC address. The server then replies with the firmware version, port, and local IP address.
Bitdefender noted that the device’s Wi-Fi hotspot is secured with a weak username and password, and during configuration, the Wi-Fi network credentials are transferred in cleartext rather than using any encryption to speak of. To make matters worse, the device-to-application communication which passes through the vendor’s servers are only encoded and not encrypted. Pinnacle scorefitter volume 1 serial.
“Encoding can be easily reversed using a scheme that is publicly available, while encryption keeps data secret, locked with a key available for a selected few,” the researchers note.
In addition, a feature of the smart plug has been poorly managed. The outlet can be configured to send email notifications every time there is a state change — such as turning on or off — but this requires access to the user’s email account credentials, further expanding the potential attack surface.
If an attacker knows the MAC address of the device and the default credentials, they can gain control of the device, plundering all of the user information stored within — which includes the user’s email credentials if the alert feature is enabled.
Due to these security flaws — and a lack of password sanitization — new passwords can also be set to override the root password and access the embedded Telnet service. When access to the network protocol is in hand, attackers can then remotely send commands to stop, start, and schedule the device, as well as execute malicious code. In addition, the outlet is vulnerable to malicious firmware updates.
The researchers note that attackers could use the device to perform attacks on other devices connected to the same local network. It may even be the case that we could see power outlets become another element of botnets, which have already included home and office routers.
“One of the most destructive actions an attacker can take is to rip off the existing software and plant malicious software in its place,” says Cabau. “For users, the consequences can extend to losing control of all their network-connected devices as they become weapons of attack in a cyber-criminal network, as well as to exposing their email accounts and their contents.”
Bitdefender reported the vulnerabilities to the vendor before public disclosure 30 days later. Microsoft office for mac 2011 torrent with product key. The vendor is working on a fix due to be released in Q3 2016.
By Charlie Osborne
Source: ZDNet
A new malicious Android remote access tool (RAT) dubbed BRATA was observed by Kaspersky researchers while spreading via WhatsApp and SMS messages to infect and spy on Brazilian users.
The new RAT was named based on its 'Brazilian RAT Android' description by the Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) researchers who spotted it in the wild in January.
Until now, the researchers have discovered more than 20 unique BRATA variants in Android apps delivered via the Google Play Store, with some also having been found on unofficial Android app stores.
BRATA's operators have been using several infection vectors including push notifications sent via compromised websites, as well as 'messages delivered via WhatsApp or SMS, and sponsored links in Google searches.'
However, as the researchers further discovered, the vast majority of the BRATA variants spotted in the wild were camouflaged as updates for the highly popular WhatsApp app.
After being downloaded and executed, some of the fake updates would exploit the WhatsApp CVE-2019-3568 vulnerability to infect the Android devices of the targeted Brazilian users.
'Once a victim’s device is infected, 'BRATA' enables its keylogging feature, enhancing it with real-time streaming functionality,' found the researchers. 'It uses Android’s Accessibility Service feature to interact with other applications installed on the user’s device.'
Among the capabilities that BRATA comes with, the RAT allows its operators to unlock their victims' devices, to collect device information, turn off the device's screen to surreptitiously run tasks in the background, and uninstall itself and removes any infection traces.
The Kaspersky researchers provide indicators of compromise (IOCs) for the BRATA RAT malware in the form of malware sample MD5 hashes at the end of their write-up.
RATs are a popular attack tool this month
Attackers have been using multiple RAT flavors to attack various types of targets this month alone, with government and financial entities being targeted with the Revenge and Orcus Remote Access Trojans, while a separate phishing campaign used fake resume attachments to deliver Quasar RAT payloads.
Last week, utility industry entities were attacked by threat actors with the Adwind RAT (also known as jRAT, AlienSpy, JSocket, and Sockrat).
Multiple entities from the Balkans were also targeted with a combo of new backdoor and RAT malware named BalkanDoor and BalkanRAT by ESET researchers who first spotted the attacks.
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In Early August, a new exploit kit distributed via malvertising and dubbed Lord EK abused the PopCash ad network to drop an njRAT payload after exploiting an Adobe Flash use-after-free vulnerability.
A few days before. Proofpoint Threat Insight Team researchers reported the detection of a new RAT malware dubbed LookBack delivered via a spear-phishing campaign and attacking the employees of three U.S. utility industry entities.