Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2021

The post Great Firewall Ready to Unleash ‘Gigantic’ DDoS—so are Other Middleboxes appeared first on Security Boulevard. Researchers have disclosed a nasty new way for bad people to mess up the internet for the rest of us.

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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. states the report published by Fortinet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

A research conducted by a research firm, Comparitech, says that billions of malicious emails target UK government employees every year. And in that study, it was revealed that the about 760,000 government employees received nearly 2.7 billion malicious emails last year.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow issue and according to the vendor it may have been exploited in a limited number of attacks aimed at government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. .” reads the advisory. ” states the report published by Fortinet. FortiOS-6K7K version 7.0.5 through 6.2.13

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, malware coders are often organized criminals, sometimes even working directly for a foreign government or intelligence agency. The post Major Viruses That Would Have Been Stopped By A Firewall | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard. The stakes are high, so it’s important to be on your guard and secure your network. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

. “These crimes included vast spearphishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as U.S. and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. The US government operation blocked access to the routers by Russian cyberspies.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 10, 2023

Executive Summary In February 2023, EclecticIQ researchers identified multiple KamiKakaBot malwares which are very likely used to target government entities in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries. Analysts assess the content of the decoy documents is designed to target government entities in ASEAN countries.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

The agency used this approach to disrupt a botnet believed to be the creation of Russian government hackers. For the second time in a year the FBI has used search-and-seizure warrants to clean malware from devices owned by private businesses and users without their explicit approval.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

government has previously attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU). The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The bug allows unauthenticated code execution on the company's firewall products, and CISA says it poses "significant risk" to federal government.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The more than 500 leaked documents , which appear to be legitimate according to experts, detail various cyber espionage campaigns carried out by i-SOON on behalf of Chinese government agencies like the Ministry of Public Security. government." Targets listed in the documents span Central and Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2020

And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. CISA reports on Chinese malware strain. It's called Taidoor. Check out the complete report here.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The post How Much Should the Federal Government Worry About Log4j? So the answer in this writer’s opinion is that the Fed should be very, very worried about log4j indeed. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

ArsTechnica is reporting on the poor cybersecurity at the plant: The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. Network admins must configure firewall rules that protect their data and applications from threat actors. It manages inbound web server traffic, the connection requests from remote sources.

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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. As we learned from NotPetya, these attacks can spread around the world.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Underpaid, overworked and angry: Whistleblower in hacker contractor firm for Chinese government blows lid off tactics, techniques and procedures. The post PRC State Hacking: ‘Chinese Edward Snowden’ Spills I‑Soon Secrets in Huge Dump of TTPs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerabilities in WatchGuard firewalls and Microsoft Windows and Windows Server need to be patched and fixed immediately, security organizations said in alerts this week. WatchGuard estimated that only a limited number (around 1%) of firewall appliances were affected, though. The vulnerability has a high severity score of 8.8

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For months, this Trojan Horse sat inside the firewalled networks of tens of thousands of unsuspecting businesses and government agencies. Sunburst, the aptly named malicious code, was distributed to as many as 18,000 organizations. The post The Solarwinds Tipping Point appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists. China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ These are the foremost reasons China is ranked fourth worst globally regarding press freedoms.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

An alleged Chinese threat actor group is behind attacks on government organizations exploiting a Fortinet zero-day flaw (CVE-2022-41328). A suspected China-linked group is exploiting a Fortinet zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41328 , in attacks aimed at government organizations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2022

A Texas school district has hit Google headlines as one of its employees was caught mining cryptocurrency without permission of the school management or the government officials. Galveston Independent School District (Galveston ISD) is the educational institution in discussion and the name of the employee found guilty is withheld.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Ransomware Redefined: RedEnergy Stealer-as-a-Ransomware attacks MAR-10445155-1.v1 v1 Truebot Activity Infects U.S. Ransomware Redefined: RedEnergy Stealer-as-a-Ransomware attacks MAR-10445155-1.v1 v1 Truebot Activity Infects U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. ” reads the press release. The ODS has notified law enforcement and OMES regarding the incident. .

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Webroot

APRIL 13, 2021

Ransomware attacks generate big headlines when the targets are government entities, universities and healthcare organizations. This includes essential security measures like firewalls, endpoint protection and DNS protection. But there’s one increasingly frequent target of ransomware attacks that tends to slip under the radar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

Security researchers from Sophos added in their statement that the gang of criminals was infiltrating networks by exploiting vulnerabilities created from unpatched software and firewalls. Medibank, LJ Hooker, and Optus were among the other companies targeted by the ALPHV ransomware group.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

Microsoft issued a clarification that those enrolled in Azure DDoS Network Protection and Web Application Firewall services need not worry as all such attacks will be mitigated by the threat detection teams of the company.

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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.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Customers can access their devices through the web using this cloud platform without directly exposing them to the internet, allowing them to keep the devices hidden behind a firewall or network address translation (NAT) router. An attacker can also get the credentials needed to travel across the compromised network laterally.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Romanian government also announced extraordinary preventive measures to prevent other hospitals from being impacted by the incident. Romanian Ministry of Health added that cybersecurity specialists, including cybersecurity experts from the National Cyber Security Directorate, are monitoring the situation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I was in the audience at Stanford in 2015 when President Obama signed an executive order urging the corporate sector to accelerate the sharing of threat feeds among themselves and with the federal government. Containerized firewall Cleaning up traffic at the router level makes good sense.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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