IOActive Security Advisory | Hikvision Camera Denial of Service
CVE-2023-28811. The Hikvision DS-7732NI-14(B) is a 32-channel Network Video Recorder (NVR). IOActive had the opportunity to assess the DS-7732NI-I4 and identified one high-risk vulnerability. This issue could be exploited to cause a denial of service (DoS) to the device.
IOActive Security Advisory | Socomec NET VISION – Multiple Vulnerabilities
IOActive Security Advisory/Disclosure document (CVE TBA) by Daniel Martinez, IOActive Senior Security Consultant, of the multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the Socomec NET VISION devices. Socomec, Inc. (Socomec) is an electrical equipment design and manufacturing company, specializing in low-voltage energy performance in terms of safety, service continuity, quality and energy efficiency. NET VISION is a professional network adapter for monitoring and controlling UPS units from a remote location. It allows direct connection of a UPS to the IPv4 or IPv6 Ethernet network, thereby enabling remote management of the UPS using a…
IOActive Security Advisory | Lamassu Douro Bitcoin ATM – Multiple Vulnerabilities
Supporting security advisory/disclosure document (CVE-2024-0175, CVE-2024-0176 and CVE-2024-0177) supporting the Lamassu Douro Bitcoin ATM research by Gabriel Gonzalez, IOActive Director of Hardware Security. IOActive had access to few of these machines, specifically to Lamassu’s Douro ATM. This provided the team with the opportunity to assess the security of these devices – more specifically, to attempt to gain full control over them – assuming the role of an attacker with the same physical access to the device that a regular customer might have.
Opinion: AGI Influencing the Secure Code Review Profession
It’s tough to be a secure code reviewer. There are already over 700 programming languages according to Wikipedia, and seemingly more languages materializing every year. Expectations are high that rapid developments in Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) will bring a new suite of languages and security issues that’ll have an oversized impact on software development. Consequently, secure software development lifecycle (SDL) processes and security code review are having to evolve rapidly. I’m both excited and nervous about AGI advancements in the world of software development and secure…
Exploring AMD Platform Secure Boot
Introduction In our previous post on platform security (see here) we provided a brief introduction into platform security protections on AMD-based platforms and touched upon the topic of AMD Platform Secure Boot (PSB). As a quick reminder, the purpose of PSB is to provide a hardware root-of-trust that will verify the integrity of the initial UEFI firmware phases, thereby preventing persistent firmware implants. In this part of the blog series, we will dig deeper into the nitty gritty details of PSB, including a first glimpse of how it works under…
Owning a Bitcoin ATM
Nowadays, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies might look lees popular than they did just a few years ago. However, it is still quite common to find Bitcoin ATMs in numerous locations. IOActive had access to few of these machines, specifically to Lamassu’s Douro ATM (https://lamassu.is). This provided us with the opportunity to assess the security of these devices – more specifically, to attempt to achieve full control over them. Figure 1. Lamassu Douro Bitcoin ATM In this post, we’ll explain all the steps we followed to identify a series of vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0175,…
Navigating the Cybersecurity Threatscape of Today’s Airports
Everything is ‘Connected’ in Today’s Modern Airports Cybersecurity in global aviation is increasingly dependent on vulnerabilities in Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems. The definition of OT systems in this context is defined as hardware and software dedicated to detecting or causing changes in physical processes through direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices such as valves or pumps. OT systems are much less organized and are rarely monitored as closely as conventional IT networks. Airports use several critical OT systems, including baggage handling, airport refueling systems, runway lights,…
A SAFE Journey to Selling Devices to Cloud and Datacenter Providers
Observations from the OCP Global Summit | San Jose, CA | October, 18, 2023 If you missed it, there was a significant launch of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation’s new community-led security program for improving device security underpins a fundamental change in the way device vendors and manufacturers engage and sell their products to the worlds leading cloud and datacenter providers. Beyond standing up a framework for driving continuous security conformance assurance, the Security Appraisal Framework and…
Commonalities in Vehicle Vulnerabilities | 2022 Decade Examination | Samantha Beaumont
With the connected car now commonplace in the market, automotive cybersecurity has become the vanguard of importance as it relates to road user safety. At the forefront of transportation cybersecurity research, IOActive has amassed over a decade of real-world vulnerability data illustrating the issues and potential solutions to cybersecurity threats today’s vehicles face. This analysis is a major update and follow-up to IOActive’s paper on vehicle vulnerabilities originally published in 2016 and updated in 2018. The goal of this 2022 update is to deliver…
IOActive Silicon Security Services
Our silicon security team helps risk managers, product owners, designers, and cybersecurity professionals understand and manage the emerging risks of silicon-level and hardware-based supply chain attacks. IOActive has spent over two decades at the forefront of cybersecurity research and providing critical security services fueled by the research. As the security of systems (and systems of systems) increasingly depends upon proper hardware security design and implementation, we have invested in honing silicon-level attack techniques that complement the advanced expertise we have long developed in identifying the embedded-device, side-channel, and fault-injection attacks. …