Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

(a.k.a “ZyXEL”) is a maker of networking devices, including Wi-Fi routers, NAS products and hardware firewalls. The flaw is designated as CVE-2020-9054. ” “If possible, connect it to a security router or firewall for additional protection,” the advisory reads. EMOTET GOES IOT?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. This includes protection from natural disasters, theft, vandalism, and terrorism.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. Overall, Q4 remained within the parameters of 2020 trends. Extortionists’ activity regularly made the news throughout 2020. This trend continued in the last months of 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

NGFWs are no exception, and IoT devices and the work-from-home craze that began in 2020 have made protecting the perimeter harder than ever. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. And on the back end, it allows them to cloak any data as it is getting exfiltrated.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis. Why Is There a Need for FWaaS?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to SiteLock researchers and cybersecurity experts, the threat landscape will only continue to grow in 2020 and will likely bring even more new challenges with it. We’ve analyzed the current state of the industry and packaged up our top five cybersecurity predictions for 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In the process, however, they embraced a large number of connected devices and IoT platforms, which means that additional data and processes are now moving outside of the firewall and into the cloud. During the upcoming RSA Conference 2020, I will be discussing the best practices for cloud key management to minimize risk.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 27, 2021

Detailed by enterprise IoT security firm Armis, the new attack (CVE-2020-16043 and CVE-2021-23961) builds on the previously disclosed technique to bypass routers and firewalls and reach any unmanaged device within the internal

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

The internet of things (IoT) describes the network of interconnected devices embedded with sensors, software, or other technology that exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet. . This means that currently there are three IoT devices for every one human on the planet. The Technical Challenge of IoT Security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

“The IoT realm remains an easily accessible target for attackers. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. Many vulnerabilities are very easy to exploit and could, in some cases, have catastrophic consequences,” the researchers conclude.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Pro-Russia group NoName targeted the websites of Italian airports North Korea actors use OtterCookie malware in Contagious Interview campaign Experts warn of a surge in activity associated FICORA and Kaiten botnets Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity PAN-OS flaw Brazilian citizen charged for threatening to release data stolen from a company in (..)

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In early 2020, researchers found something weird going on with Linux servers hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In a perfect world, the firewalls of our servers would only allow web traffic in from trusted ports. In a perfect world, the firewalls of our servers would only allow web traffic in from trusted ports. How it works.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. RCE CVE-2020-5902 F5 BigIP RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2019) ThinkPHP 5.X RCE CVE-2020-5902 F5 BigIP RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2019) ThinkPHP 5.X ” states the report published by AT&T Alien Labs.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2020

I had a lively discussion at RSA 2020 with one of these vendors, Accedian , a 15-year-old company based in Montreal, Canada. One of the benefits of 5G and IoT, for instance, is hyper connectivity. LW: So you’re looking at traffic that’s made it through the firewall and intrusion detection? Rezek Rezek: Absolutely.

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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. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Deployed with more than 30 exploits, it has the potential of targeting millions of routers and IoT devices. Example 1: main_infectFunctionGponFiber function, exploits CVE-2020-8958. The function exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2020-10173 is shown in figure 9. Example 2: Function exploiting vulnerability CVE-2020-10173.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

We published this tool to help customers ensure these IoT devices are not susceptible to these attacks.” The Trickbot operation has switched to using MikroTik routers as C&C servers since 2020. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. As recently as 2020, 83% of medical imaging devices ran on operating systems that no longer receive updates. Also read: Top IoT Security Solutions for 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

VPNs and RDP both enable remote access that can put an intruder deep inside the firewall. Based in San Mateo, CA, Axis publicly announced its advanced Zero Trust access tool in March 2020, just as the global economy was slowing to a crawl. “We There’s no inbound traffic, so there’s no inbound hole in your firewall.”.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And smart devices are big news— a study commissioned by the UK government in 2020 revealed that almost half (49 percent) of UK residents purchased at least one smart device since the pandemic started. but not vehicles, smart meters, smart medical devices, laptops, and desktop computers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In a blog post, Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) researchers said while they have not observed memory leaks or crashes because of CVE-2020-27223 , a server may take minutes to process a single request. Researchers also observed an exponential relationship between the size of the request and the duration of CPU use.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Next-generation firewalls NGFW Fortinet Palo Alto Networks. Web application firewall WAF Akamai Imperva. In 2020, McAfee MVISION Cloud topped the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CASBs, while being named for a fourth straight year. Firewalls: PA-Series (physical), NGFWs, VM-Series (virtual). XM Cyber Platform. Prisma SD-WAN.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack. The “edge” refers to the hardware device (data center server, laptop, IoT) directly connected to the internet where it might be exposed to attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

We started regular scanning of all 4 billion routable IPv4 addresses on the 5th of June 2020 and added Open IPP reporting as part of our daily public benefit remediation network reports on the 8th of June 2020. Our IPP scans uncover around 80,000 open devices (printers) per day.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alien Labs expects to see new campaigns based on BotenaGo variants targeting routers and IoT devices globally. The Mirai botnet targets mostly routers and IoT devices, and it supports different architectures including Linux x64, different ARM versions, MIPS, PowerPC, and more. Figure 4 shows the implementation of CVE-2020-10987.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. Features: Cato Edge SD-WAN and SASE.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Check Point: Best for Firewalls 11 $25.34 Known for strong next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) products, it also ranks for network security tools , zero trust , extended detection and response (XDR), IoT security , software-defined wide area network ( SD-WAN ), and secure access service edge (SASE).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

NetScout’s latest Threat Intelligence Report found more DDoS attacks in the first half of 2021 compared to the whole of 2020. Since 2020, through various waves of DDoS extortion campaigns we’ve witnessed, this trend holds true. The most recent wave happened in December 2021. Quality and accuracy of mitigation. Cloudflare.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

EDR has become engrained as an essential layer of protection for PCs and servers and XDR simply extends this layer to firewalls, email servers, smartphones and IoT devices. In late 2020, Gartner called XDR the number one trend CISOs should understand to strengthen security initiatives. That was on Dec.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 23, 2021

As in part one, we’ll be looking at data covering the calendar year of 2020. Most of the trojan-based activity can be attributed to Emotet, as healthcare organizations were hit hard by the threat in 2020. It’s possible that the machines compromised are involved in the manufacturing process itself, even IoT related.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Initially, Volexity suspected the initial victim organization’s firewall may have been compromised. In mid-September, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new botnet, named Raptor Train, composed of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Policy Secure Ivanti acquired Pulse Secure on December 1, 2020, from Siris Capital. And more: Nozomi Guardian (industrial IOT and operational technology tracking), Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator, etc. Security information and event management (SIEM): IBM QRadar, Splunk, etc.

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