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Security: DDoS, Broadcom, Black Hat, Google Play, Vault 7 “Aeris”

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 29th of July 2017 07:08:22 PM Filed under
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  • Seattle man held over DDoS attacks in Australia, US and Canada

     

    The DDoS attacks took place in 2015 and many of the businesses were contacted by an individual who made unspecified demands from them.

  • Joint international operation sees US citizen arrested for denial of service attacks on IT systems [iophk: "no word yet on any arrests of those that deployed Microsoft systems and connected them  to the network in the first place"]

     

    A two and a half year joint operation between the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Toronto Police Department has resulted in a 37-year-old Seattle man being arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service attacks on IT systems.  

  • Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack

    It's not often that a security researcher devises an attack that can unleash a self-replicating attack which, with no user interaction, threatens 1 billion smartphones. But that's just what Nitay Artenstein of Exodus Intelligence did in a feat that affected both iOS and Android devices.

    At the Black Hat security conference, Artenstein demonstrated proof-of-concept attack code that exploited a vulnerability in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom. It fills the airwaves with probes that request connections to nearby computing devices. When the specially devised requests reach a device using the BCM43xx family of Wi-Fi chipsets, the attack rewrites the firmware that controls the chip. The compromised chip then sends the same malicious packets to other vulnerable devices, setting off a potential chain reaction. Until early July and last week—when Google and Apple issued patches respectively—an estimated 1 billion devices were vulnerable to the attack. Artenstein has dubbed the worm "Broadpwn."

  • Sounds bad: Researchers demonstrate “sonic gun” threat against smart devices

    At the Black Hat security conference on Thursday, a team of researchers from Alibaba Security demonstrated how sound and ultrasound could be used to attack devices that depend on sensor input from gyroscopes, accelerometers, and other microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). A sonic "gun" could in theory be used to knock drones out of the sky, cause robots to fail, disorient virtual or augmented reality software, and even knock people off their "hoverboard" scooters. It could also potentially be used to attack self-driving cars or confuse air bag sensors in automobiles.

    Many of the commercial gyroscope sensors in electronic devices are tuning fork gyroscopes—MEMS devices that use the vibrations of two "proof masses" to track rotation and velocity. But an outside source of vibration matching the resonant frequency of the gyroscope could interfere with the sensor's stability and cause the sensor to send bad data to the device it is embedded in.

  • Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts

    Google has expelled 20 Android apps from its Play marketplace after finding they contained code for monitoring and extracting users' e-mail, text messages, locations, voice calls, and other sensitive data.

  • For a security conference that everyone claims not to trust the wifi, there sure was a lot of wifi
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