Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Cisco has warned customers that hackers continue to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance products by exploiting the CVE-2018-0296 flaw. Experts warn that threat actors continue to exploit the CVE-2018-0296 flaw to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance. SecurityAffairs – Cisco ASA, CVE-2018-0296). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Sophos firewall flaw and seven other issues to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2022-1040 is an authentication bypass vulnerability that resides in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall. MR3 (18.5.3) and earlier.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Cloud features – like public cloud support, CASB and cloud workload protection – and cloud-based management have also grown in importance, and Firewalls as a Service (FWaaS) are catching on too. If you’re already working with a networking vendor and they have strong firewall offerings, they’re worth evaluating of course.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. On compromised ASA devices, attackers utilize the host-scan-reply field to deliver shellcode, bypassing the need for CVE-2018-0101 exploitation.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall. Related: Malicious activity plagues the cloud services. Decryption bottleneck.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Researchers reported that there are 490,000 Fortinet firewalls exposing SSL VPN interfaces on the internet, and roughly 69% of them are still vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997. “If only 153,414 devices on the internet are patched, that leaves 335,923 / 489,337 = 69% unpatched.” ” states the analysis published by Bishop Fox.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock (@SiteLock) August 12, 2018. Guillaume Hamel (@guihamel) August 12, 2018. If you’d like to learn more about how partnering with SiteLock can help you and your WordPress-powered website or business succeed, have a look at our malware scanning and removal, Web Application Firewall, and CDN products right here.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Each event is unique, and WordCamp Europe 2018 was no different. Jenny Beaumont (@jennybeaumont) June 15, 2018. John Maeda (@johnmaeda) June 16, 2018. Alycia (@artdecotech) June 15, 2018. WordCamp Europe (@WCEurope) June 16, 2018. WordCamp Europe (@WCEurope) June 16, 2018. The Sponsor Experience. In Summary.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 3, 2020

French police hacked EncroChat secure phones, which are widely used by criminals: Encrochat's phones are essentially modified Android devices, with some models using the "BQ Aquaris X2," an Android handset released in 2018 by a Spanish electronics company, according to the leaked documents. Encrochat was trapped.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Genevieve Howard (@HowGen) July 12, 2018. Among his recommendations were: Use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Our own Jamie Schmid also presented a four-hour workshop named Building a solid foundation: Introduction to content strategy workshop and judging by the social and in-person feedback, her content was well-received!

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Cyclops Blink appears to be a replacement framework for the VPNFilter malware exposed in 2018, which exploited network devices, primarily small office/home office (SOHO) Intelligence agencies in the U.K. and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls. Palo Alto Networks has issued security updates to address tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

” The most serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-11466 and ranked with CVSS score of 10, could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker on the network to trigger a DoS condition on the integrated software firewall or execute arbitrary code in the context of the firewall by sending specially crafted packets to TCP port 102.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. In May 2018, the FBI executed a similar strategy to dismantle VPNFilter, which had spread to more than a half-million consumer devices.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

standard in RFC 8446 in August 2018, plenty of tools and utilities were already supporting it (even as early as the year prior, some web browsers had implemented it as their default standard, only having to roll it back due to compatibility issues. Toward the end of 2018, EMA conducted a survey of customers regarding their TLS 1.3

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) , and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. If you’re just looking for a firewall with good security, Sophos will do. Fortinet offers virtual firewalls too for hybrid cloud use cases.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected approximately 1% of active firewall appliances, which are devices mainly used by business customers. Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019. Mitigation and detection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2022

This malware that was first detected in 2018 has anti-debugging capabilities and the potential to remove other malware already installed in the system or network. It acts as a spreading medium to install BlackCat Ransomware. The best way to avoid infections from such extortion emails is to.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Security experts at ESET have recently observed a surge in activity of DanaBot banking Trojan that is now targeting Poland, Italy, Germany, Austria, and as of September 2018, Ukraine. “Further to this development, on September 8, 2018, ESET discovered a new DanaBot campaign targeting Ukrainian users.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

During Q2 2018, SiteLock analyzed over 6 million websites protected by web application firewalls and malware scanners in order to identify trends among cybercriminals. The SiteLock Website Security Insider Q2 2018 goes over these and other tips for protecting your website from attackers. SiteLock 24/7/365 U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

“A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, Cisco RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router, and Cisco RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device.” RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router: 1.3.1.1.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Incapsula was acquired by web application firewall vendor Imperva. In a more recent report, Gartner projects that by 2024 at least 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE, up from less than 1% at year-end 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Another example of back to the basics was how Gartner Research Directors Gorka Sadowski and Pete Shoard took us through the State of the Threat Landscape, 2018 (see chart below). This $60 device opens 3G out-of-band access, behind the firewall, for the owner. Two gizmos they showed off were amazing. The first, was the LAN Turtle.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The list of flaws discovered by the experts includes a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-14818 , that could lead to remote code execution. Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls, and isolate them from the business network.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, in Q1 2018, 37% of website owners who had a cyberattack on their website reported that the attack damaged their profitability. There are solutions available for websites of all shapes and sizes including malware scanners and web application firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

I visited with Joe Sykora, vice president of worldwide channel development for Bitdefender, at Black Hat USA 2018 , and asked him to put the remarkable staying power of endpoint security in context. In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This can include spam filtering, malware detection, firewalls upkeep, vulnerability management and more. The global market for managed security services is expected to rise to $48 billion by 2023, up from $24 billion in 2018, according to ReportLinker. Related: Delivering useful intel to MSSPs.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. But this hasn’t done the trick.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has observed threat actors attempting to exploit the CVE-2018-13379 in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal and CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure. How did a major firewall vendor (almost 500k IPs) end up backdoored? ” reads the security advisory.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. “It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The first version of the bot exploits tens of known vulnerabilities including: CVE-2020-17456 vulnerability affecting SEOWON INTECH SLC-130 and SLR-120S routers; CVE-2018-10823 flaw an older D-Link routers (DWR-116 through 1.06, DWR-512 through 2.02, DWR-712 through 2.02, DWR-912 through 2.02, DWR-921 through 2.02, DWR-111 through 1.01).

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Threatpost

AUGUST 8, 2018

A Black Hat talk demonstrates the ease of poking holes in firewalls: How to break, bypass and dismantle macOS firewall products.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Threat actors also exploited the exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerability in MikroTik routers to recruit them in botnets such as Mirai and VPNFilter. “I added firewall rules that blocked access to the router from outside the local network,” Alexey wrote.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Biggest Cybersecurity Trends of 2018. Throughout 2018, per-day website attack attempts increased by just about 60%, peaking at 80 attacks and averaging at 62 attacks. In fact, only around 15% of malware-infected sites were blacklisted in 2018. This is one of many lessons from 2018 that will apply throughout 2019.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took control of a large cyber-attack aimed at Ukraine in late May 2018. These are a few examples of why it is important to secure your website with a web application firewall (WAF), a tool that protects websites from harmful traffic, like cybercriminals and bad bots.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The three vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2018-16056 , CVE-2018-16057 and CVE-2018-16058 affect respectively the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol (ATT) dissector, the Radiotap dissector, and the Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP) dissector components of Wireshark. “To

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