Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

On compromised ASA devices, attackers utilize the host-scan-reply field to deliver shellcode, bypassing the need for CVE-2018-0101 exploitation. By redirecting the pointer to the Line Dancer interpreter, attackers can interact with the device through POST requests without authentication.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Securing and attacking Modbus has therefore been a topic for years, and it was first in 2018 that the Modbus Security protocol (MSP) was published, nearly 40 years after the initial introduction of Modbus. To help mitigate this issue, the Modbus Security Protocol was developed and released in 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Three flaws are rated as critical, one of them is the recently discovered CVE-2018-11776 Apache Struts remote code execution vulnerability. The “critical” flaw CVE-2018-0435 affects Cisco Umbrella API, a remote authenticated attacker could leverage the vulnerability to read or modify data across multiple organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. OpenFire vulnerability persists Open-source chat server OpenFire has been affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315) since May. The security bulletin was last updated August 25.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. OpenFire vulnerability persists Open-source chat server OpenFire has been affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315) since May. The security bulletin was last updated August 25.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Maintain minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561). 2027063: ET EXPLOIT Outbound GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561). Recommended actions. Conclusion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . Therefore, make sure to set up the latest network routers and firewall protocols across all IT equipment to strengthen your security and create a defense against hackers and security breaches. Two-factor authentication . Firewalls .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-10088. Ensure minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561). 2831296: ETPRO EXPLOIT XiongMai uc-httpd RCE (CVE-2018-10088).

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

The firewall emerged as the cornerstone around which companies were encouraged to pursue a so-called defense-in-depth strategy. Intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and sandboxing technologies got bolted onto the firewall. Anti-virus suites morphed into endpoint detection systems. SASE fundamentals.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2023

Users, guests and internet-of-things (IoT) devices can be located, on-boarded, authenticated, and evaluated for compliance. ExtremeControl integrates into the customer’s major third party ecosystems for private cloud orchestration, mobile device management (MDM), enterprise mobility management (EMM), content filter, and firewall solutions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

” Most of the vulnerabilities were reported by researchers at Kaspersky and Positive Technologies in October 2018 and December 2018, other issues were discovered by an expert from Turkish firm Biznet Bili?im.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. Make Use of Multifactor Authentication. Multifactor authentication is a defense measure that prevents attackers from gaining unauthorized access to your systems using a stolen password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2018

. “In this paper, we show that reusing a key pair across different versions and modes of IKE can lead to cross-protocol authentication bypasses, enabling the impersonation of a victim host or network by attackers. We exploit a Bleichenbacher oracle in an IKEv1 mode, where RSA encrypted nonces are used for authentication.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

no authentication and clear-text communication Incorrect HTTP requests cause out of range access in Zope XSS on the web interface Private SSH key Backdoor APIs Backdoor management access and RCE Pre-auth RCE with chrooted access. Also, there is no firewall by default.” and 3.1.1 – last updated in November 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

In late 2018, the USPS Informed Delivery service was hit with a massive data breach, exposing 60 million records. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. This dynamic came into play at the U.S. Postal Service. Big white elephant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

According to the experts from Kaspersky that first analyzed the framework, the MATA campaign has been active at least since April of 2018. “The first artefacts we found relating to MATA were used around April 2018. This comprehensive framework is able to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.” cls and k_3872.cls,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. IoT Attacks in 2018. Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million in 2018 to 15.4 Web Application Firewall (WAF): WAFs protect customer websites against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, where attackers band together to take a site down by disrupting its offered services. million in 2023.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Unlike other printer management protocols, the IPP protocol supports multiple security features, including authentication and encryption, but evidently organizations don’t use them. “Obviously, these counts only represent devices that are not firewalled and allow direct querying over the IPv4 Internet.”

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retailers must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which mandates the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help protect customers from data breaches. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million to $4.24 million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

The FBI has been tracking these attacks for two years: In December 2018, cyber actors started abusing the multicast and command transmission features of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) to conduct DDoS reflection and amplification attacks, resulting in an amplification factor of 34.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Configure network firewalls to block unauthorized IP addresses and disable port forwarding.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Seven of these vulnerabilities were discovered between 2018 and 2021 and remained unpatched! While the infotainment system is supposedly firewalled from steering, throttling, and braking, attached devices may not be fully secured against communication via Wi-Fi.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Web application firewalls (WAF) serve as a barrier to protect applications from various security threats. The potential cost is too great not to act.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The majority of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain initial access to the target networks, they affect systems that are directly accessible from the Internet, such as firewalls and gateways. 12) CVE-2018-6789 – Sending a handcrafted message to an Exim mail transfer agent may cause a buffer overflow.

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2019

Since our last week’s post, security firm Cloudflare has detailed how they developed and deployed a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to detect those attackers. Affected Products Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall versions prior to 1.2.2.1 Affected Products Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall versions prior to 1.2.2.1

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

in terms of IT/OT modernization and compliance with the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, Sanders offered advice to utilities that are seeking to make similar progress. Recognizing that the ABCWUA is “ahead of a lot of the water authorities” across the U.S.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to Purplesec, ransomware attacks have increased by 350% since 2018, zero-day attacks were up by 55% in 2021, and out of the 30 million SMBs in the USA, over 66% have had at least 1 cyber incident between 2018-2020. Cybercrime is on the rise at a startling rate. Endpoint security defenses are an important part of this.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Meaning, authentication bypasses weren’t enough. Both the vulnerabilities (dubbed CVE-2018-18472 and CVE-2018-18471) remain unpatched at the time of this publication. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . We were successful, in all the devices. Part One: XXE.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In March 2018, computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. Place any system with an open RDP port behind a firewall and require users to use a virtual private network (VPN) to access that system. Where possible, apply two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2018

million) in just three days (between August 10 and 13, 2018). On August 13, 2018, the attackers were able to abuse the Cosmos Bank’s SWIFT SAA environment LSO/RSO compromise/authentication to send three international wire transfer requests to ALM Trading Limited at Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong. ” reads the report.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 5, 2017

requirements are coming to a head with a deadline this February 1st, 2018. Secure all individual non-console administrative access and all remote access to the CDE using multi-factor authentication Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data PCI DSS Requirement 10.8 [For The updated PCI 3.2

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Email Authentication Protocols: SPF, DKIM, DMARC The three mutually-reinforcing email authentication protocols, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) verify the authenticity of emails.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks. Even as recently as 2018, Marriott International reported that an attack from 2014 left over 500 million users’ information exposed.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Countermeasures: To prevent drone signal hijacking, drone manufacturers and operators can implement encryption and authentication mechanisms for RF communication. Insecure Configurations: Incorrectly configured RF devices, such as misconfigured access control or firewall settings, can leave them vulnerable to attacks.

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