Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

While security experts have been aware of printer vulnerabilities for quite a while, even previous large-scale attacks on printers like the Stackoverflowin hack in 2017 and the PewDiePie hack in 2018 did not seem to shock the public into securing their networked devices. Use a firewall. SecurityAffairs – hacking, printers).

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. Cybercriminals are interested in hacking your IP address for various reasons. The hacked and stolen IPs are often used for carrying out illegal activities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Zyxel, hacking).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Wordfence confirmed the ongoing attack, its Web Application Firewall already blocked over 450,000 exploit attempts during the last several days. “The Wordfence firewall has blocked over 450,000 exploit attempts targeting this vulnerability over the past several days. SecurityAffairs – hacking, File Manager plugin).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack. The “P2P Cloud” feature bypasses firewalls and effectively allows remote connections into private networks. ” concludes SEC Consult.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 15, 2025

Enable Input Filtering : Network administrators should implement web application firewalls (WAF) and traffic inspection tools to detect malicious payloads targeting router endpoints. Restrict Admin Panel Access : Ensure that the router’s administrative interface is only accessible from the local network or through secure VPN connections.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed a new severe vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal that impacts PAN next-generation firewalls. Recently Palo Alto Network addressed a critical vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2020-2021, affecting the PAN-OS operating system that powers its next-generation firewall. x base score of 10. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning companies running Windows 7 systems of the greater risk of getting hacked because the Microsoft OS has reached the end of life on January 14. Ensuring anti-virus, spam filters, and firewalls are up to date, properly configured, and secure.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Windows).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Ripple20 vulnerabilities are unique both in their widespread effect and impact due to supply chain effect and being vulnerabilities allowing attackers to bypass NAT and firewalls and take control of devices undetected, with no user interaction required,” reads the JSOF’s report. SecurityAffairs – Ripple20, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. While an investigation is still ongoing, the Agency announced to have installed additional monitoring agents on its firewalls. SecurityAffairs – NASA, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The ZoneAlarm suite includes antivirus software and firewall solutions to and users and small organizations, it has nearly 100 million downloads. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious request to the firewall. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2020-5135).

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

Cisco fixed CVE-2020-3452 high-severity path traversal flaw in its firewalls that can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive files from the targeted system. link] Happy Hacking! Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2020-3452).

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2020

Snake samples employed in more recent attacks implements the ability to enable and disable the firewall and leverage specific commands to block unwanted connections to the system. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SNAKE ransomware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Siemens SPPA-T3000, hacking). The post Flaws in Siemens SPPA-T3000 control system expose power plants to hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2025

The threat actors behind Aquabot have been advertising it as a DDoS-as-a-service on platforms like Telegram under various misleading names, such as Cursinq Firewall and The Eye Botnet. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, Mirai)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ttint botnet).

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

We release a firewall rule covering both the patched and unpatched vulnerabilities to our Premium users. July 15, 2020 – Firewall rule becomes available to Wordfence Free users. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software. Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to patch critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

The feature was implemented to enable connecting to collectors from the supervisor when there is a firewall between the collector and the supervisor. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

. “Simply disabling UDP Transport, or firewalling the UDP port (usually port 3391) is sufficient to prevent exploitation,” explained the popular researcher Marcus Hutchins. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Juniper Networks addressed several vulnerabilities in its firewalls, most of them can be exploited by attackers for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

The threat actors use PsExec to execute scripts, enable RDP access, and modify firewall rules. At this stage, Medusa concurrently advertises sale of the data to interested parties before the countdown timer ends. Attackers use Mimikatz to steal credentials. Threat actors use Rclone for data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Waiting for a security update that will address the issue, experts at Cisco Talos recommend disabling SMBv3 compression and blocking the 445 TCP port on client computers and firewalls to mitigate the issue. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Creating a DWORD value called 3.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“ SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research team observe huge hits on our firewalls that attempt to exploit the command injection vulnerability with the below HTTP request.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A few weeks ago, researchers from Crowdstrike revealed that the Iran-linked APT group tracked as Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

Let’s see how your data can be hacked easily. Logging in through a public network also provides cybercriminals easier access to our account details and password and make your accounts vulnerable to hacking. Protect your device by enabling the firewall on your device. Security Affairs – Public Wi-Fi, hacking ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

“Between May 29 and May 31, 2020, the Wordfence Firewall blocked over 130 million attacks intended to harvest database credentials from 1.3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. SecurityAffairs – power utility, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Use firewall rules to limit any access to Docker APIs. We strongly recommend using a whitelisted approach for your firewall ruleset. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Security researchers from Israeli firm OTORIO found critical vulnerabilities in leading industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by attackers to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper with data, and even steal sensitive business secrets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The security firm confirmed the ongoing attack, its Web Application Firewall blocked over 450,000 exploit attempts during the last several days. The Wordfence firewall has blocked over 450,000 exploit attempts targeting this vulnerability over the past several days. SecurityAffairs – hacking, File Manager). Wordfence said.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We released a firewall rule to protect against these vulnerabilities the same day.” “During our investigation, we also discovered a separate set of vulnerabilities in the plugin that were not yet patched, and released a firewall rule to protect against these separate vulnerabilities the next day, on August 21, 2020.”

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