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New Russia Malware targets firewall appliances

CyberSecurity Insiders

Interestingly, Cyclops Blink has been operational since June 2019 and is now being developed into espionage conducting software from just a mere persistent remote access malware accessing WatchGuard Firewall appliances. The post New Russia Malware targets firewall appliances appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

Krebs on Security

It had the username and password for the system printed on the machine. According to the EAS wiki, in February 2013, hackers broke into the EAS networks in Great Falls, Mt. 2017, an EAS station in Indiana also was hacked, with the intruders playing the same “zombies and dead bodies” audio from the 2013 incidents.

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SonicWall warns users of “imminent ransomware campaign”

Malwarebytes

It sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security, including devices providing services for network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPNs), and anti-spam for email. SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. Devices at risk.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.”

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The Top 5 Website Security News Stories of 2014

SiteLock

In August 2013, Australian security firm, Gibson Security, contacted the Snapchat team to notify them of a vulnerability in their API that would allow hackers access to user data. Snapchat didn’t respond, and on December 31st 2013, Gibson Security released the source code for the API exploit publicly (a common Google practice).

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

Caz-bees first took shape as a cottage industry circa 2013 to 2014 in response to a cry for help from companies reeling from new Shadow IT exposures : the risk created by early-adopter employees, quite often the CEO, insisting on using the latest smartphone and Software-as-a-Services tools, without any shred of security vetting.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

“It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.” 001 explains how to use a RAT he developed called “Little Boy” to steal credit card numbers and passwords from victims. to for a user named “ fatal.001.”

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