PC World

Researcher: UPnP flaws expose millions of networked devices to remote attacks

Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their ...
Bleeping Computer

Unpatched UPnP-Enabled Devices Left Exposed to Attacks

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons and servers reachable over the ...
Threat Post

UPnP Trouble Puts Devices Behind Firewall at Risk

Networked devices behind a firewall are at risk to attack because of poor authentication in the UPnP protocol in most home routers. Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to ...
eWeek

Akamai Warns of Reflection DDoS Attacks Using Millions of UPnP Devices

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. More than 4 million consumer and business devices—such as ...
HotHardware

Millions Of Connected Devices Vulnerable To CallStranger UPnP Network Security Flaw

Game consoles like the Xbox One, along with Windows PCs, routers, smart TVs, and more have been found to be vulnerable to a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) security flaw affecting millions of connected ...
Wired

A Long-Awaited IoT Crisis Is Here, and Many Devices Aren't Ready

You know by now that Internet of Things devices like your router are often vulnerable to attack, the industry-wide lack of investment in security leaving the door open to a host of abuses. Worse still ...
Ars Technica

UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet

Make sure UPnP is turned off on your router/firewall. It’s usually one f the 1st things I do any never noticed any ill effects. Click to expand... I can tell you one ill effect. Everyone that lives ...
Bleeping Computer

QNAP urges customers to disable UPnP port forwarding on routers

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP urged customers on Monday to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to prevent exposing their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to ...
HotHardware

Alarming Eternal Silence UPnP Exploit Exposes 1.7 Million Devices To Wi-Fi Zombie Attacks

Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy ...
Forbes

Disable This Buggy Feature On Your Router Now To Avoid A Serious Set Of Security Vulnerabilities

You've probably never checked whether your Internet router is set by default to use a harmless-sounding protocol called Universal Plug and Play. If it does, now's a good time to turn it off. The ...
Computerworld

UPnP flaws expose tens of millions of networked devices to remote attacks, researchers say

Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their ...
InfoWorld

UPnP flaws expose tens of millions of networked devices to remote attacks

Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs, and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their ...