Z-Shave Attack Could Impact Over 100 Million IoT Devices The Z-Wave wireless communications protocol used for some IoT/smart devices is vulnerable to a downgrade attack that can allow a malicious party to intercept and tamper with traffic between smart devices. The attack —codenamed Z-Shave— relies on tricking two smart devices that are pairing into thinking one of them does not support the newer S-Wave… Read More
“Hide and Seek” Becomes First IoT Botnet Capable of Surviving Device Reboots Security researchers have discovered the first IoT botnet malware strain that can survive device reboots and remain on infected devices after the initial compromise. This is a major game-changing moment in the realm of IoT and router malware. Until today, equipment owners could always remove IoT malware from their smart devices, modems, and routers by… Read More
Half a million pacemakers need a security patch The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month approved a firmware patch for pacemakers made by Abbott’s (formerly St Jude Medical) that are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks and which are at risk of sudden battery loss. Source: sophos… Read More
Exploiting Bluetooth Low Energy using Gattacker for IoT – Step-by-Step Guide Learn how to exploit Bluetooth Low Energy for IoT Devices using a step-by-step guide. In this post, we are using Gattacker to perform sniffing and replay based attacks. Source: attify… Read More