BRIDGE:BREAK Exposes 20,000+ Lantronix & Silex Serial-to-IP Gateways — 22 Critical Flaws Open the Door to Takeovers and OT Disruption
If you think the softest target in your industrial network is a Windows HMI panel, think again. Researchers just dropped 22 vulnerabilities—collectively dubbed BRIDGE:BREAK—hitting Lantronix and Silex serial-to-IP converters, the small, unassuming boxes that quietly ferry data between legacy OT gear and modern IP networks. Nearly 20,000 of these devices are sitting on the open…