The advent of IoT has driven technological and economic advancements. However, this has also resulted in a rise in the number of vulnerable smart devices.
What’s going on?
At DEF CON 2020, Barak Sternberg demonstrated vulnerabilities in the HDL automation system that can be abused by threat actors to manipulate existing devices controlled by these systems. The bugs in this automation system used for smart buildings could even allow a complete takeover of accounts belonging to other users in the network.
What are the implications?
It allows a hacker to control a remote server that is used as a proxy for configuring smart devices in homes, offices, and airports.
The behavior of the device can be altered, along with gaining access to internal passwords and network configurations.
Server rooms are at high risk if temperatures are increased.
Other IoT cyberattacks
More than 3.7 million IoT devices, including doorbells with webcams, baby monitors, and surveillance cameras, were found vulnerable to attackers via two insecure communications protocol.
Last month, a new strain of the Mirai botnet was found attacking particular versions of IP cameras, routers, and smart TVs, via CVE-2020-5902.
Although the Ripple20 vulnerabilities were reported in June, little has improved since then. As per researchers from JSOF, the flaws will never be completely eliminated due to the massive scale of usage of Treck stack in various products.
Is this getting serious?
Although IoT devices have been av ..
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