---
id: 1370
title: "Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/25/exploiting-zero-days-in-abandoned-hardware/"
published_at: "2025-07-25 11:00"
tags: ["zero-day", "firmware", "hardware-hacking", "iot-security", "trail-of-bits", "exploit-chain", "eol-hardware"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1370"
lang: en
---

# Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware

## Summary

Trail of Bits researchers exploited a Netgear router and Bitdefender Box at DistrictCon's Junkyard contest, chaining UPnP and firmware downgrade flaws into remote root shells on end-of-life hardware.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2025-07-25 11:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/25/exploiting-zero-days-in-abandoned-hardware/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1370