Security Affairs reports that multiple energy sector organizations across the Middle East have been subjected to attacks from newly emergent Iran-linked threat operation Nasir Security amid intensifying geopolitical tensions in the region.
SocksEscort utilized malware, identified as AVrecon, to infect home and small business routers, including devices from brands like Cisco, D-Link, and Netgear.
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KadNap operates as a peer-to-peer network, utilizing a custom version of the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table (DHT) protocol to communicate with its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.
Medical devices are a special segment of the IoT world where availability and patient safety are paramount. Tamil Mathi explains why many devices need to fail open -- the opposite of what traditional appsec approaches might initially think -- and what makes threat modeling these devices interesting and unique. He also covers how to get started in t...
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