Showing posts with label Backdoor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backdoor. Show all posts

Monday, April 21, 2014

[thehackernews] Routers TCP 32764 Backdoor Vulnerability Secretly Re-Activated Again

At the beginning of this year, we reported about the secret backdoor ‘TCP 32764’ discovered in severalrouters including, Linksys, Netgear, Cisco and Diamond that allowed an attacker to send commands to the vulnerable routers at TCP port 32764 from a command-line shell without being authenticated as the administrator.

Friday, March 14, 2014

[infosecurity-magazine] Backdoor Found in Samsung Galaxy

A developer working on Replicant, an open-source free mobile operating system designed to replace all proprietary Android components with open-source alternatives, has discovered a backdoor in Samsung Galaxy that provides almost full access to user files, camera, microphone and location.

Friday, February 14, 2014

[infosecinstitute] NSA Backdoor Part 2, BULLDOZER: And, Learn How to DIY a NSA Hardware Implant

This article is the second part of a series on NSA BIOS Backdoor internals. This part focuses on BULLDOZER, a hardware implant acting as malware dropper and wireless communication “hub” for NSA covert operations. Despite that BULLDOZER is a hardware, I still use the word “malware” when referring to it because it’s a malicious hardware. Perhaps the term “malware” should refer to both malicious software and malicious hardware, instead of referring only to the former.