Security News > 2020 > August > Black Hat Wrap-Up: IoT and Hardware Vulnerabilities Take the Spotlight
The first entirely virtual edition of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference took place last week and researchers from tens of organizations presented the results of their work from the past year.
The Kr00k vulnerability, which allows attackers to decrypt wireless communications, only affects Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom and Cypress, but ESET researchers discovered recently that similar vulnerabilities also exist in chips made by MedaTek and Qualcomm.
Researchers from Trend Micro have analyzed several protocol gateways used in industrial environments and found that they are affected by vulnerabilities that can allow threat actors to obtain valuable information and disrupt critical processes.
Google Project Zero has released a report on the vulnerabilities exploited in attacks in 2019, and its researchers have drawn some interesting conclusions regarding the detection of zero-days.
Researchers from JSOF and Tenable discovered more devices affected by the vulnerabilities dubbed Ripple20.