07-28-2018 , 09:39 PM
Sensitive Data on a U.S. Air Force Drone Breached Through Home Router Vulnerability
July 12, 2018 | By Kim Crawley
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Drone aircraft are some of the U.S. Air Force’s deadliest weapons. Information on how to operate them can be very dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. If that sort of data was breached and exfiltrated, you’d expect the attack vector would be an obscure zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a masterful cyberwarfare group, right? What if I told you that sort of data was breached by someone who desperately needed $200, through a home router exploit that’s been known for years?
Never, ever leave the default settings unmodified on your networking appliances!
Recorded Future’s Insikt Group made an interesting discovery as they were monitoring a Dark Web forum for cyber attackers. Someone was trying to sell manuals for the M1 Abrams tank, improvised explosive devices, and the MQ-9A Reaper drone. The seller was looking for $150 or $200, and they needed the money badly. Further investigation determined that the documents for sale were authentic.
Source:
https://blog.comodo.com/comodo-news/sens...erability/
July 12, 2018 | By Kim Crawley
undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined (1 votes, 5.00 / 5
Drone aircraft are some of the U.S. Air Force’s deadliest weapons. Information on how to operate them can be very dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. If that sort of data was breached and exfiltrated, you’d expect the attack vector would be an obscure zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a masterful cyberwarfare group, right? What if I told you that sort of data was breached by someone who desperately needed $200, through a home router exploit that’s been known for years?
Never, ever leave the default settings unmodified on your networking appliances!
Recorded Future’s Insikt Group made an interesting discovery as they were monitoring a Dark Web forum for cyber attackers. Someone was trying to sell manuals for the M1 Abrams tank, improvised explosive devices, and the MQ-9A Reaper drone. The seller was looking for $150 or $200, and they needed the money badly. Further investigation determined that the documents for sale were authentic.
Source:
https://blog.comodo.com/comodo-news/sens...erability/