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More than 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls hacked exploiting recently patched zero-days

Security Affairs

Threat actors already hacked thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls exploiting recently patched zero-day vulnerabilities. Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls have reportedly been compromised in attacks exploiting recently patched zero-day vulnerabilities ( CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 ) in PAN-OS. This week, the U.S.

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Muddling Meerkat, a mysterious DNS Operation involving China’s Great Firewall

Security Affairs

The threat actors appear to have the capability to control China’s Great Firewall and were observed utilizing a novel technique involving fake DNS MX records. The experts noticed a spike in activity observed in September 2023. However, the Infoblox researchers have yet to discover the motivation behind the attacks.

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US and UK link new Cyclops Blink malware to Russian state hackers?

Security Affairs

US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about a new malware, dubbed Cyclops Blink, that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group. According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances.

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Grandson of FISMA: Why We Desperately Need New Cybsersecurity Legislation from the 117th Congress

Cisco Security

The 47-page report provided significant detail to support the conclusion that “According to agency inspectors general, the average grade of the agencies’ overall information security maturity is C-.”. The Risk Management Framework doesn’t take into account that the human is the new perimeter of the enterprise.

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Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet targeting ASUS routers

Security Affairs

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about the Cyclops Blink bot that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group.

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DHS also issued an alert for the Windows BlueKeep flaw

Security Affairs

Experts at the CISA Agency successfully exploited the BlueKeep flaw on a machine running Windows 2000. The agency urges Microsoft users and administrators to install security patches, disable unnecessary services, enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) if available, and block TCP port 3389.

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US dismantled the Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet

Security Affairs

. “The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor known to security researchers as Sandworm, which the U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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