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VulnCheck detects remote command injection vulnerability in Contec SolarView series, affecting ICS hardware

VulnCheck detects remote command injection vulnerability in Contec SolarView series, affecting ICS hardware

Following a June Palo Alto Networks Unit 42's blog that discusses the Mirai botnet variant, utilizing new CVEs for propagation and highlighting the latest IoT exploits, new details have emerged from VulnCheck about three vulnerabilities affecting a command injection vulnerability…

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Mirai, Bricker Bot and the future of IoT malware

On October 21st, 2016, the biggest DDoS attack ever was initiated on the service provider Dyn. This attack disabled major websites like Reddit, Netflix, Airbnb, CNN, and Twitter. A DDoS attack on that scale could only be made with a…