Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 Researchers recommend properly configuring the firewall to protect the devices exposed online, enable automatic updates, and monitor network traffic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) , and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. If you’re just looking for a firewall with good security, Sophos will do. Fortinet offers virtual firewalls too for hybrid cloud use cases.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. To find out how many printers were on the menu for our experiment, we searched for IP addresses with open ports on specialized IoT search engines, such as Shodan and Censys.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

We published this tool to help customers ensure these IoT devices are not susceptible to these attacks.” The attack chain against the routers starts with brute-force attacks or by exploiting the CVE-2018-14847 flaw that allows reading a file that contains passwords. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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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. Cyclops Blink is believed to be a replacement for the VPNFilter botnet, which was first exposed in 2018 and at the time was composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

I was just reviewing last year’s trip report and thinking about how it was full of “IoT”, “Blockchain”, and of course “Digital Transformation”. Just to double check that my perception wasn’t false, I just did a search on “IoT” and only two Gartner sessions had that term in the title. Two gizmos they showed off were amazing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Deployed with more than 30 exploits, it has the potential of targeting millions of routers and IoT devices. CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-10088. Ensure minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from the IoT security firm Armis, the same that found the BlueBorne Bluetooth flaws, have discovered two serious vulnerabilities in BLE chips designed by Texas Instruments. The BLEEDINGBIT vulnerabilities affect several Texas Instruments chips, the CVE-2018-16986 flaw affects CC2640 and CC2650 chips running BLE-STACK 2.2.1

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Although best known for their industry-leading firewall technology, Fortinet harnesses their knowledge of network protection to create a powerful network access control (NAC) solution. Founded in 2000 , Sunnyvale, California headquartered Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate provides enterprise-grade firewall solutions. Who is Fortinet?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Major attacks saw a 967% increase between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. According to a 2018 study from Coreo , DDoS attack victims stand to lose up to $50,000 in forfeited business revenue per attack. Your first line of defense should be a web application firewall. Why Is a DDoS Attack Destructive?

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” IoT/OT security : very few, very small vendors focus there, and some who used to are pivoting away. There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. So still no money in it?

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

According to the experts from Kaspersky that first analyzed the framework, the MATA campaign has been active at least since April of 2018. “The first artefacts we found relating to MATA were used around April 2018. This comprehensive framework is able to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.” cls and k_3872.cls,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The expert located the database by using IoT search engines such as Shodan and BinaryEdge.io. — Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) October 25, 2018. “As we learned from this incident, one never knows when transient firewall rules may inadvertently expose your development machines to the public.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. As we get deeper into digital transformation and extend IoT-enabled commerce, there is a growing recognition in cybersecurity circles of the rising exposure enterprises face, with respect to network compromises aided and abetted by memory attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Additionally, no firewall rules, port forwarding rules, or DDNS setup are required on the router, which makes this option convenient also for non-tech-savvy users.” The “P2P Cloud” feature bypasses firewalls and effectively allows remote connections into private networks. ” reads the report published by SEC Consult. !

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup Est Headquarters Staff Funding Funding Type Abnormal Security 2018 San Francisco, CA 261 $74.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 Series A Perimeter 81 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel 159 $65.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. For a full drill down on our discussion give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. Features: Cato Edge SD-WAN and SASE.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2023

Users, guests and internet-of-things (IoT) devices can be located, on-boarded, authenticated, and evaluated for compliance. ExtremeControl integrates into the customer’s major third party ecosystems for private cloud orchestration, mobile device management (MDM), enterprise mobility management (EMM), content filter, and firewall solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Barracuda SecureEdge SASE product builds off the well established Barracuda security products (firewalls, gateways, email security, and more) that already protect so many global companies. Barracuda once traded publicly on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CUDA, but as of 2018 has been taken private by Thoma Bravo.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alien Labs expects to see new campaigns based on BotenaGo variants targeting routers and IoT devices globally. The Mirai botnet targets mostly routers and IoT devices, and it supports different architectures including Linux x64, different ARM versions, MIPS, PowerPC, and more. Figure 2 shows the initialization of 33 exploits.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

“Obviously, these counts only represent devices that are not firewalled and allow direct querying over the IPv4 Internet.” In December 2018, the TheHackerGiraffe used the Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) to hijack +50k vulnerable printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel. ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine , and then hammered the US hotel chain with a $125 million penalty – the first major fines under the EU’s toughened General Data Protection Regulation , which took effect May 25, 2018. Related: Will GDPR usher in new age of privacy? million, on average.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. IoT Opens Excessive Entry Points. The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably the future of technology. SQL Injection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Both the vulnerabilities (dubbed CVE-2018-18472 and CVE-2018-18471) remain unpatched at the time of this publication. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . CVE-2018-18472 – WD MyBook Live Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Kaspersky researchers revealed that hackers now use security devices such as firewalls , load balancers, or network address translators (NAT) to interfere with TCP connections, spoof IPs, and perform amplification attacks. It attacked routers that were compromised in 2018 when MikroTik RouterOS had a vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

In practice, however, air-gapping an OT system or firewalling its protected network is only the beginning of hardening its overall security. They are often unknown and dynamic, and, with OT systems firewalls dissolving, coming from more places. So, what do you do with an inherently vulnerable system that you don’t want to touch?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

WPA3 is the newest protocol and offers better security features such as stronger encryption, protection against dictionary attacks, and easier setting of IoT devices, but has yet to become widely used. Use a firewall on your router and any devices connected to your network to prevent unauthorized access to your network and data.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

The FBI has been tracking these attacks for two years: In December 2018, cyber actors started abusing the multicast and command transmission features of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) to conduct DDoS reflection and amplification attacks, resulting in an amplification factor of 34.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

in terms of IT/OT modernization and compliance with the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, Sanders offered advice to utilities that are seeking to make similar progress. Now we’re starting to see a convergence of these two into IoT, [although] traditionally the two groups never really worked a whole lot with each other,” said Sanders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

” In April 2018, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP) , experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy. In December 2018 the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy is still up and running.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” IoT/OT security : very few, very small vendors focus there, and some who used to are pivoting away. RSA 2018: Not As Messy As Before? Yet another proclaimed that ZTNA 1.1

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption can also be found incorporated into a variety of network security and cloud security solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), password managers , virtual private networks (VPN), and web application firewalls (WAF). that can perform encryption using less power and memory.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

For modern networks, the introduction of new endpoints – be it remote laptops for personnel or client IoT devices – is a roadblock being actively addressed. Going back to RSA 2018’s Cryptographers’ Panel , it was the ‘S’ in RSA, Adi Samir, who said blockchain could address threats presented by quantum computing. Block Armour.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Seven of these vulnerabilities were discovered between 2018 and 2021 and remained unpatched! August 12 , 2023 Ford Auto’s TI Wi-Fi Vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand and become a threat to connected businesses. Owners will need to download the update to a USB stick and perform the patch installation.

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