South Korea's National Police Agency has announced the arrest of four individuals accused of breaching over 120,000 network-connected home and business cameras as part of a sexploitation scheme, the BBC reports.
DefenseScoop reports that the U.S. Department of Defense has introduced new guidelines for implementing zero-trust security in operational technology systems.
Malware has been spread in a recent update of the widely used open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV after its developer's signing keys were compromised last week, reports BleepingComputer.
For OT systems, uptime is paramount. That's a hard rule that makes maintaining, upgrading, and securing them a complex struggle. Tomas "Data" Owens and James Cotter discuss how Tennessee is tackling the organizational and technical challenges that come with hardening OT systems across the state. Those challenges range from old technology (like RS-2...
In the security news: Cloudflare was down, it was not good, Logitech breached, The largest data breach in history?, Fortinet Fortiweb - the saga continues, Hacking Linux through your malware scanner, oh the irony, I never stopped hating systemd, The ASUS exploit that never existed, If iRobot fails, can we deploy our own hacker bot army?, Threat act...
Trellix reports that manufacturing continues to face the highest volume of operational technology attacks, representing 42% of OT-related detections across its critical-infrastructure customers, with transportation and shipping, utilities, energy companies, and aerospace firms making up the remaining top targeted sectors, according to Cybersecurity Dive.
Security Brief Asia reports that a widespread cyberespionage campaign, dubbed "Operation WrtHug," has compromised thousands of ASUS routers globally, with SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team attributing the activity to a China-linked threat actor.
This week: Minecraft on your lightbulb, Sonicwall breached, who's next?, Ditch Android, install Linux, Hacking your face, Thermostat freedom, Pen test fails, HackRF hacking times 2, Going around EDR, Hackers in your printer, Chinese data breach, NFC relays and PCI, Constructive construction hacks, FlipperZero firmware update, ICS, PLCs, and attacks...
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