{"id":126720,"date":"2021-08-25T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:22:40","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices under attack from IoT botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in <strong>hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors<\/strong> is currently under attack from a notorious DDoS botnet gang.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks started last week, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/securingsam.com\/realtek-vulnerabilities-weaponized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> from IoT security firm SAM, and began just three days after fellow security firm IoT Inspector published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iot-inspector.com\/blog\/advisory-multiple-issues-realtek-sdk-iot-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">details<\/a> about the vulnerability on its blog.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2021-35395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CVE-2021\u201335395<\/a>, the vulnerability is part of four issues IoT Inspector researchers found in the software development kit (SDK) that ships with multiple Realtek chipsets (SoCs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors is currently under attack from a notorious DDoS botnet gang. The attacks started last week, according to a report from IoT security firm SAM, and began just three days after fellow security firm IoT Inspector published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}