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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. 2004 was a key year for several safety activities, encompassing both Safer Internet Day and the Safer Internet Forum. Was the general state of the Internet at the time so bad that all of these events sprang up almost out of necessity? You may be asking, why 2004?

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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.’ If your staff can log on to the internet to access their emails, so can an attacker.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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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. Internet access to the management interface of any device is a security risk.

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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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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. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing. It's called Taidoor.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 2,000 PDUs were directly exposed to the internet in 2021, and roughly a third of those were iBoot PDUs, according to a Censys research. However, the flaws discovered by Claroty can be used to get through NAT and firewalls and execute arbitrary code, allowing the attacker to turn off power to all the PDU-controlled devices.

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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. Identify affected systems and immediately isolate them from the rest of the network as well as from the Internet Keep a copy of the ransom message and any other communications from the attackers.

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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Bill Hagestad examines how China's culture and troubled history of western colonialism influenced its government views and actions regarding the global internet and its interactions with western technology companies such as Google and Nortel - check it out. Colonel (Ret.)

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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. This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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

JANUARY 20, 2023

According to the security firm, the vulnerability was exploited in attacks against a series of targets, including a European government entity and a managed service provider located in Africa. ’ The experts discovered a Windows and a Linux variant of BOLDMOVE, the latter was specifically designed to target FortiGate Firewalls.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 8, 2022

On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that it had disrupted GRU’s control over thousands of internet-connected firewall devices compromised by the Russian Sandworm group. In light of world news, it’s important to note that the Sandworm group has always been known to target Ukrainian companies and government agencies.

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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. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

Customers have to modify firewall rules to deny HTTP and HTTPs traffic to the software on ports 80 and 443. WE ALSO WANT TO REMIND ALL COMPANY THAT IF YOU PUT DATA ON INTERNET WHERE DATA IS NOT PROTECT DO NOT BLAME US FOR PENETRATION TESTING SERVICE. Disable all HTTP and HTTPs traffic to your MOVEit Transfer environment.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a DPD Champion, SiteLock recognizes and supports the principle that organizations, businesses and government all share the responsibility of being conscientious of data privacy by taking part in respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. Explore how our TrueShield Web Application Firewall can help prevent a data breach.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The order aims at preventing threat actors could exploit the vulnerability in attacks against government systems. CISA recommends 3 immediate actions: 1⃣Enumerate internet-facing endpoints that use Log4j. CISA recommends 3 immediate actions: 1⃣Enumerate internet-facing endpoints that use Log4j. 3⃣Install a?web

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

.” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed this week in a letter that better cyber hygiene – specifically, blocking SolarWinds Orion servers from outbound internet traffic – could have helped prevent the supply chain attack. (“SolarWinds letters” by sfoskett at [link] is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ).

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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. I’ll keep watch. Talk more soon.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

We rely on it for communication between individuals, businesses, governments, and organizations. Internet of Things (IoT) : The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the telecom sector is a double-edged sword. Encryption, Patches, and Firewalls: Let’s start with protection. What can be done?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

But as soon as the Chinese government became aware of political discussions on the app, it was abruptly blocked by the country’s online censors, on Monday February 8, 2021. An investigation by the Stanford Internet Observatory found that some of the back-end infrastructure for the Clubhouse App was provided by Agora.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

This could be those without antivirus protection, young internet users or, unfortunately, your elderly loved ones. Government impersonation scams : Criminals pose as government employees and threaten to arrest or prosecute victims unless they agree to provide funds or other payments. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” The US CISA also reported that multiple APT groups were observed exploiting CVE-2022-42475 to establish a presence on the organization’s firewall device. Between early-February and mid-March 2023, the government experts observed the presence of anydesk.exe on three hosts. ” continues the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

With organizations around the world on heightened alert in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, government agencies have stepped up efforts too. Privilege and other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Malware Protection Engine, Internet Explorer and more (27 in all).

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

Since the vulnerable DNS clients are usually exposed to the internet this creates a huge attack surface. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet. FreeBSD is widely used in firewalls and several commercial network appliances. Together they are used by over 100 Million devices. Some background. Exploitation.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2018

Against the background of globalization and the internet era, the emerging cyber sovereignty concept calls for breaking through the limitations of physical space and avoiding misunderstandings based on perceptions of binary opposition. Governments and multi-stakeholders can play different leading roles at the different levels of cyberspace.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

Data Governance and Risk Management Recognizing the foundational role of data governance in privacy and cybersecurity, the updated Privacy Framework may emphasize data governance principles, practices, and controls. These measures include implementing firewalls, encryption, access controls, and regular security updates.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. China has been using #Taidoor malware to conduct #cyber espionage on governments, corporations, and think tanks. US government agencies published the Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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