Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. In all the intrusions, the attackers targeted Pulse Secure VPN appliances in the breached networks. ” reads the report published by FireEye. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

At least four VPN apps sold or made available to enterprise customers share security flaws, warns the Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC). Virtual private networks (VPNs) are affordable, easy to use, and a vital component in your system. What if these VPNs are vulnerable to attackers? 8.3R6, and 9.0R2.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Pulse Secure has fixed a zero-day flaw in the Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance that threat actors are actively exploiting in the wild. that allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as the root user via maliciously crafted meeting room. reads the report published by FireEye. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” By far the most important passwords are those protecting our email inbox(es).

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning TTPs, reminding those of APT groups to get their victims shell out.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

Over the past few months, several cyberespionage groups, including one believed to be tied to the Chinese government, have been breaking into the networks of organizations from the United States and Europe by exploiting vulnerabilities in VPN appliances from zero-trust access provider Pulse Secure. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

PCS provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) facilities to businesses, which use them to prevent unauthorized access to their networks and services. Most of the problems discovered by Pulse Secure and Mandiant involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020. The old vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. During 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported an increase in the number of BEC complaints related to the diversion of payroll funds. Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. Authentication assurance to the rescue!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

“Two of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by actors using Netwalker are Pulse Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510) and Telerik UI (CVE-2019-18935).” “Two of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by actors using Netwalker are Pulse Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510) and Telerik UI (CVE-2019-18935).”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NordVPN and TorGuard VPN firms were hacked, threat actors leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. . Hackers have breached the systems used by NordVPN and TorGuard VPN companies and leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2021

Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and authentication functions. This targeting and exploitation encompasses US and allied networks, including national security and government related systems. Its goal is to make it easier to share data across separate vulnerability capabilities (tools, databases, and services).

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI, as well as Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre – the campaign dates back to at least the middle of 2019 and has targeted hundreds of U.S. Adding multi-factor authentication will go a long way in remediating the threat.”.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 14, 2025

Fortinet patched a zero day authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy that has been actively exploited in the wild as a zero-day since November 2024. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2024-55591 FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Vulnerability 9.6 websocket module.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1579, affects the GlobalProtect portal and GlobalProtect Gateway interface products. GlobalProtect products allow organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) access, they also implement other security and management features. Palo Alto calls their SSL VPN product line as GlobalProtect.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) : MFA requires multiple forms of identification, adding an extra layer of security. If you have to use a trusted VPN then use that, but be aware a VPN doesn’t make your connection secure it just moves the threat to the VPN provider. Multi-Factor authentication (MFA).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

According to Cyberintelligence firm Bad Packets , hackers allegedly exploited the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability in the Citrix Netscaler ADC VPN gateway exposed by Indiabulls. The CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability affects Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances.

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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. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-17059, was discovered by the security expert Rob Mardisalu that reported it to Sophos. ” reads the advisory published by Sophos.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic for example, you may use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect to your organization’s network as if you’re sitting in the office, or you might use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to your computer that’s now collecting dust on your office desk. VPNs continue to be problematic as well.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator What is the WireGuard VPN protocol ? Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Is it Game Over for VR Advergaming ?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The UNC2165 group has been active since at least 2019, it was mainly observed using the FAKEUPDATES infection chain (aka UNC1543 ) to access the victims’ networks. According to eSentire, the crooks gained access to the workforce management corporation’s IT network using stolen Virtual Private Network (VPN) credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators. Below are the job descriptions used to recruit the hackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

It is found hacking databases through brute force attacks or password spray via TOR and VPN servers. APT28 aka Fancy Bear or Strontium is a hacking group that is funded by Russian Military Intelligence. And then is seen accessing the entire network through stolen credentials and sometimes exploiting vulnerabilities in targeting systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Security through a VPN. Among many other benefits, a VPN encrypts these files and keeps the online activity private by masking a user’s real IP address. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

.” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager Aruba ClearPass provides role- and device-based network access control for employees, students, contractors and guests across any multi-vendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure. Applicable Metrics Aruba ClearPass is deployed in high-volume authentication environments (e.g. 30 points of presence).

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 4, 2020

it allows people without valid usernames and passwords to remotely connect to the corporate network the device is supposed to protect, turn off multi-factor authentication controls, remotely view logs and cached passwords in plain text (including Active Directory account passwords).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The same devices are affected by a DoS flaw (CVE-2020-3397) in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Multicast VPN (MVPN) implementation. Another DoS issue (CVE-2020-3398) in BGP MVPN affects Nexus 7000 series switches too. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

— VFEmail.net (@VFEmail) February 11, 2019. The hacker destroyed all virtual machines even if the company pointed out that they did not share the same authentication. 22 -N — VFEmail.net (@VFEmail) February 11, 2019. Of course the attacker could have been using a VPN to hide its real origin., 30081:127.0.0.1:22

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x x firmware are past temporary mitigations. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The list of flaws includes OS Command Injection, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, Cross-site Request Forgery, Small Space of Random Values, Cross-site Scripting, Exposure of Backup file to Unauthorized Control Sphere, Improper Authentication, and Use of Hard-coded Credentials. “Prima Systems FlexAir, Versions 2.3.38

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

This includes an authentication by-pass vulnerability that can allow an unauthenticated user to perform remote arbitrary file execution on the Pulse Connect Secure gateway. The vendor also released a tool that can scan Pulse Secure VPN servers for signs of compromise for CVE-2021-22893 or other previous vulnerabilities.

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NopSec

JANUARY 30, 2019

This week’s most talked about vulnerability is CVE-2019-1653. It was discovered and privately disclosed to Cisco by a German security firm RedTeam Pentesting, along with a remote command injection flaw – CVE-2019-1652. for CVE-2019-1653 and CVE-2019-1652, respectively. and 1.4.2.17. through 1.4.2.19.

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