Malwarebytes
MARCH 11, 2021
Virtual Private Networks ( VPN s) are popular but often misunderstood. VPNs are for illegal activity. Some people think that VPNs are only useful for doing things like torrenting, accessing geo-locked content, or getting around work/school/government firewalls. I don’t need a mobile VPN.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 27, 2023
Targeting Firewalls and IPS/IDS Appliances In the case of CVE-2022-42475, a flaw in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN, Mandiant observed a Chinese state-sponsored group exploiting the vulnerability in late 2022. firewalls, IPS/IDS appliances, etc.),” the researchers wrote.
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SecureWorld News
MARCH 10, 2022
And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. It's probably best to think of it as a second Great Firewall—which severely limits what content goes in and out of Russia—rather than a "Runet" as some have called it.
SecureList
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The most commonly used preemptive tactic is adding firewall rules that block incoming connection attempts. They can be made to serve as routers (proxies or VPN servers) to anonymize illicit traffic. Less frequently, remote device management services will be shut down. Various ways exist to monetize Illicit access to webcams.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 4, 2024
The fix: To eliminate malware infections, perform a factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware, change all default usernames and passwords, and adjust firewall rules to block exposure to unwanted remote management services. and a medium (CVSS 4.3) level vulnerability.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 27, 2020
Learning about how hackers were able to intercept drone feed video from CIA observation drones during the war in Iraq, for instance, tells us a lot about how tenuous sophisticated surveillance technology really can be, out in the Internet wild. But not with that old, firewall-to-death approach.
SecureList
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The cyber-offense ecosystem still appears to be shaken by the sudden demise of NSO Group; at the same time, these activities indicate to us that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to commercial-grade mobile surveillance tooling. One of the major cyber-incidents of 2022 took place early this year: the Okta hack.
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