Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Cybersecurity firm Sophos releases an emergency patch to address an SQL injection flaw in its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released an emergency patch to address an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability affecting its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time. But what sets NGFWs apart from traditional firewalls? NGFWs offer several advantages over traditional firewalls.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A web application firewall — also known as a WAF — is basically a website’s gatekeeper. You may think that your small business’s website doesn’t receive enough traffic to necessitate a gatekeeper, but consider this: More than 60% of all internet traffic is made up of bots. What Do Web Application Firewalls Protect Against?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2023

Researchers at Censys have identified hundreds of devices deployed within federal networks that have internet-exposed management interfaces. The experts focused on roughly 1,300 of these hosts that were accessible online and discovered hundreds of devices with management interfaces exposed to the public internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2022

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw affecting Zyxel firewall devices that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain arbitrary code execution. Zyxel has moved to address a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2022-30525, CVSS score: 9.8) through ZLD V5.21 Patch 1 ZLD V5.30 USG FLEX 50(W) / USG20(W)-VPN ZLD V5.10 through ZLD V5.21

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Impacted devices include Unified Security Gateway (USG), ATP, USG FLEX and VPN firewalls products. Affected product series Patch available in Firewalls ATP series running firmware ZLD V4.60 Someone could for example change firewall settings to allow or block certain traffic. Patch1 in Dec. Patch1 in Dec. Patch1 in Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

A vulnerability in Sophos Cyberoam firewalls could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a target’s internal network without authentication. Sophos addressed a vulnerability in its Cyberoam firewalls that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a company’s internal network without providing a password.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys. bash_history).

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds critical CVE-2022-30525 RCE flaw in Zyxel Firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. affecting Zyxel firewall devices that enables unauthenticated and remote attackers to gain arbitrary code execution as the “nobody” user. through ZLD V5.21 Patch 1 ZLD V5.30

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Some information security specialists confuse the concepts of WAF and NGFW. Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. We have an NGFW, do we need a WAF?"

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A circuit-level gateway (CLG) is a firewall feature that acts as a proxy and filters packets based on session information. CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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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. Despite this, physical security must be implemented correctly to prevent attackers from gaining physical access and taking whatever they desire.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cisco helped the NFL achieve a strong, continuously available and protected Super Bowl enterprise network through a mix of cloud and on-premises security technology, up-to-the-minute threat intelligence, and some of the industry’s most talented cybersecurity professionals.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Jim and I talk about the findings of DirectDefense’s latest Security Operations Threat Report and dig into the intriguing ways artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping both cyberattack and defense automation strategies. Jim Broome is the President and CTO at DirectDefense.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability in the management interface of FortiWeb firewall was discovered by Andrey Medov, from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

“It is recommended that your QNAP NAS stay behind your router and firewall without a public IP address. ” The vendor also recommends enabling the VPN server function on the user router to access QNAP NAS from the Internet. Only use encrypted HTTPS or other types of secure connections (SSH, etc.).

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

For example, companies with exposed IoT are more than 50% more likely to have email security issues, according to a new report and blog post from the Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon. But what does that correlation mean for chief information security officers? Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

The team focused its analysis on Windows Firewall and AppContainer that were designed by Microsoft to limit the attack surface of applications. “Recently I’ve been delving into the inner workings of the Windows Firewall. ” reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. ” wrote Forshaw.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Samsung S22 hacked Sophos fixed a critical flaw in its Sophos Firewall version 19.5

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. The researchers warned that as of May 19, there were at least 42,000 instances of Zyxel devices on the public internet. reads the alert published by Rapid7.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The vulnerability impacts more than 2,000 organizations worldwide and over 54,000 SLP instances that are publicly exposed to the Internet, including VMWare ESXi Hypervisor, Konica Minolta printers, Planex Routers, IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM), SMC IPMI, and 665 other product types. Bitsight reported the flaw to the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Sophos Firewall affected by a critical authentication bypass flaw Mar 20- Mar 26 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict Security Affairs newsletter Round 358 by Pierluigi Paganini Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5 CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. And how to prevent it?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

.’ The experts discovered a Windows and a Linux variant of BOLDMOVE, the latter was specifically designed to target FortiGate Firewalls. “This incident continues China’s pattern of exploiting internet facing devices, specifically those used for managed security purposes (e.g., firewalls, IPSIDS appliances etc.).

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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. “This flaw exists pre-authentication and within a component (SSLVPN) which is typically exposed to the public Internet.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. This information is useful to the authorities or for further analysis of the attack Do not shut down the affected equipment.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

They dropped hidden payloads or used internet protocol (IP) scanning tools, such as Angry IP Scanner, to search for vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports or by leveraging RDP on Microsoft Windows environments. “Once they discover an exposed RDP service, the actors use open source brute force tools to gain access. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In early October, Fortinet addressed the critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. Now Cyble researchers reported more than 100,000 FortiGate firewalls accessible from the internet that may be targeted by threat actors if not patched yet.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

Like other Black Hat conferences, the mission of the NOC is to build a conference network that is secure, stable and accessible for the training events, briefings, sponsors and attendees. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity. Recorded Future.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, the Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country to an internet shutdown. ris botnet is targeting devices that were compromised three years ago.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) platform that provides users with multiple levels of defense against internet-based threats. Umbrella integrates secure web gateway, firewall, DNS-layer security, and cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality to protect systems against threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Exploitation of these together yields remote code execution under the privileges of the affected component on the firewall device.” “The smuggling capability was not designated a CVE identifier as it is not considered a security boundary by the affected vendor.” ” reads the advisory published by Randori.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about the Cyclops Blink bot that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

.” The attackers exploted the CVE-2022-41328 zero-day to write files to FortiGate firewall disks outside of the normal bounds allowed with shell access., then they maintained persistent access with Super Administrator privileges within FortiGate Firewalls through ICMP port knocking.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

.” CISA also recommends 3 immediate actions: enumerating internet-facing endpoints that use Log4j; ensuring that SOCs act on every alert on affected devices; installing a web application firewall (WAF) that automatically updates. CISA recommends 3 immediate actions: 1⃣Enumerate internet-facing endpoints that use Log4j.

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