2018-06-15 | Tapplock smart lock pwnage, ADB.miner malware affecting Amazon Fire devices, and CloudScraper tool

Friday, June 15

TOP STORY

• China-linked cyber espionage group (LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda, APT27 and Threat Group 3390) has targeted a national data center in Central Asia. Kaspersky Lab researchers identified the attack in March.

TWEET OF THE DAY

• I think we can all agree that YOLO should be used more often when processing reports on HackerOne. - @jackhcable

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• PenTest Partners blogs about their pwnage of the Tapplock smart lock. The only thing needed to unlock the lock is to know the BLE MAC address that is broadcast by the lock. Not to mention the physical security gaps.

• Phishing attack compromised 23,000 in HealthEquity Data Breach.

• ADB.miner Android malware affecting Amazon Fire devices

• Tool: CloudScraper supporting AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean

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They’ve gone for the “AES 128-bit encryption” with an inference that their security is on a parallel with the military. It must be secure! This is a red flag to a IoT hacker though – it ignores pairing, key exchange, key sharing… and most importantly, makes no mention of authentication. Time and time again we see AES-128 used in manners that make it entirely insecure.

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