eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

A VPN protocol creates the tunnels that your traffic travels through when you use a VPN to keep your communications private. WireGuard and OpenVPN are two popular open-source VPN protocols that businesses and users can choose from when they sign up for a VPN service. Also Read: VPN Security Risks: Best Practices for 2022.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 21, 2021

Cybersecurity news hounds The Record report that a spokesperson for the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) said the intrusion took place last month , on May 14 to be exact, through a vulnerability in a virtual private network (VPN) server. The weapon: a VPN vulnerability. The name of the VPN vendor is being kept secret.

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The Hacker News

JULY 15, 2021

The warning comes more than a month after reports emerged that remote access vulnerabilities in SonicWall SRA 4600 VPN appliances (CVE-2019-7481) are being x firmware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

NSA is warning of multiple state-sponsored cyberespionage groups exploiting enterprise VPN Flaws. Last week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have been exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in enterprise VPN products in attacks in the wild.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Kaspersky reported how recent attacks against a series of European industrial networks were accomplished at a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Kaspersky is the first to report how those attacks were accomplished: a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Alexxsun / CC BY-SA 4.0 ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. In all the intrusions, the attackers targeted Pulse Secure VPN appliances in the breached networks. ” reads the report published by FireEye. ” continues the report.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 8, 2020

While the agency experienced 1,468 incidents, its budget was decreased last year, according to a report by Atlas VPN.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. “The primary causes of the incident include the use of an outdated and vulnerable firmware version on the Fortigate VPN server (version 6.0.2 ” continues Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. Threat actors leverage VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure, to breach into the target networks. ” reads the alert issued by the NCSC.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663 critical flaw in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. The CVE-2019-1663 flaw received a CVSS score of 9.8, The tech giant fixed the issue in the following releases: RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall: 1.2.2.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Europol said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

Over the past few months, several cyberespionage groups, including one believed to be tied to the Chinese government, have been breaking into the networks of organizations from the United States and Europe by exploiting vulnerabilities in VPN appliances from zero-trust access provider Pulse Secure. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Pulse Secure has fixed a zero-day flaw in the Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance that threat actors are actively exploiting in the wild. In all the intrusions, the attackers targeted Pulse Secure VPN appliances in the breached networks. “In reads the report published by FireEye. reads the advisory published by Pulse Secure.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. data historians, OPC servers, cross-domain web applications, and VPN services), their exploitation could potentially allow attackers to move from the IT to the OT networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ARIN’s civil case caught the attention of federal prosecutors in South Carolina, who in May 2019 filed criminal wire fraud charges against Golestan , alleging he’d orchestrated a network of shell companies and fake identities to prevent ARIN from knowing the addresses were all going to the same buyer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

“Among active infections in 2019 are two separate locations of a private American company that offers services related to national security, from a university and a college in the U.S., “Threat actors often use commercial VPN services to hide their whereabouts when administering C&C servers and doing reconnaissance.

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Digital Guardian

APRIL 5, 2021

APT groups increasingly targeted CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 last month.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Security researcher Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs discovered a privilege escalation flaw that impacts all versions of Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows except the latest release. “In our exploration, we found that after the Forcepoint VPN Client Service was started, the sgvpn.exe signed process was executed as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM.”

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 4, 2020

On 14th August 2019 somebody posted an exploit for the issue on my forum, OpenSecurity.global. On August 22nd 2019, I realised somebody was scanning the internet for the issue, via the help of BinaryEdge.io. On August 22nd 2019, I realised somebody was scanning the internet for the issue, via the help of BinaryEdge.io.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Still CVE-2019-11510 – Pulse Secure VPN CVE-2019-11510 has been a nightmare for IT & cyber-security teams for the past 2 weeks. Last week, we extensively covered CVE-2019-11510 and there is no surprises that it is still the trending CVE for this week. NopSec advises you to apply patches immediately.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI, as well as Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre – the campaign dates back to at least the middle of 2019 and has targeted hundreds of U.S. and foreign organizations across the world, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2019

Updates on Drupal (CVE-2019-6340) & A New Improper Input Validation Flaw Leading to RCE in Cisco Routers (CVE-2019-1663) The improper input validation flaw leading to remote code execution (RCE) in Drupal (CVE-2019-6340), which we covered in detail last week, is still trending this week.

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NopSec

JANUARY 30, 2019

This week’s most talked about vulnerability is CVE-2019-1653. It was discovered and privately disclosed to Cisco by a German security firm RedTeam Pentesting, along with a remote command injection flaw – CVE-2019-1652. for CVE-2019-1653 and CVE-2019-1652, respectively. and 1.4.2.17. and 1.4.2.17. through 1.4.2.19.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2021

Malware targeting Apple’s macOS is on the rise—and fast—according to an investigation by Atlas VPN, which reported 674,273 new malware samples were found in 2020, up from just 56,556 samples detected in 2019. The post Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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NopSec

AUGUST 28, 2019

CVE-2019-11510 – Pulse Secure VPN Description In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.1R15.1, References Pulse Security Ad visory The post Trending CVEs for the Week of August 26th, 2019 appeared first on NopSec. before 8.2R12.1, before 8.3R7.1, before 9.0R3.4, There is no workaround for this vulnerability.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Cisco said that CVE-2019-1663, which has a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. Onavo was a VPN-like research tool that Facebook acquired in 2013. That’s according to a court document filed March 23, 2024. Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Forcepoint has fixed a privilege escalation vulnerability in its VPN Client for Windows.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A threat actor has published online a list of one-line exploits to steal VPN credentials from over 49,000 vulnerable Fortinet VPNs. A threat actor, who goes online with the moniker “pumpedkicks,” has leaked online a list of exploits that could be exploited to steal VPN credentials from almost 50,000 Fortinet VPN devices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Experts from BadPackets pointed out that attackers might have exploited the Pulse Secure VPN CVE-2019-11510 to compromise the company. BadPackets reported that SeaChange had a Pulse Secure VPN server ( [link] ) vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 from April 24, 2019 until March 24, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. The phishers often will explain that they’re calling from the employer’s IT department to help troubleshoot issues with the company’s email or virtual private networking (VPN) technology. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden recommends customers of ExpressVPN VPN service to stop using it. Edward Snowden expressed concerns about the VPN service offered by ExpressVPN and has warned users to stop using it. If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. Why Snowden is worried about ExpressVPN?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

VPN attack surface It’s notable that even without Covid-19 pressure was intensifying for Apple to join FIDO. For instance, we know from a recent report from threat intelligence firm Clear Sky that in 2019, after the U.S. Both VPN usage and VPN attacks are way up this year.” When they get locked out, they use passwords.

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