Security News

Week in review: Malicious Cisco router implants, .onion becomes a special-use domain name, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine (Help Net Security)
2015-09-21 06:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: (IN)SECURE Magazine issue 47 released (IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing...

Malicious SYNful Cisco router implant found on more devices around the globe (Help Net Security)
2015-09-18 06:55

After FireEye researchers published on Tuesday their discovery of 14 Cisco routers in India, Mexico, Philippines and Ukraine that have been implanted with a modified, malicious Cisco IOS image, anothe...

Scan of IPv4 Space for ‘Implanted’ Cisco Routers Finds Fewer Than 100 (Threatpost)
2015-09-16 15:02

A day after researchers detailed a technique that attackers are using to upload malicious firmware images to Cisco routers, academic researchers say they have scanned the entire IPv4 address space...