Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were swiped and advertised for sale online last week, offered by a cyber thief who allegedly stole user data collected by the VPN apps themselves. So this is a mess, and a timely reminder of why trust in a VPN provider is so crucial. Past VPN errors.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

2019 will be the year consumers start thinking more about cyber hygiene , and the year Congress becomes more proactive in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. Identity theft has become the third certainty in life after death and taxes, and consumer-friendly solutions to protecting against it will profit nicely in 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Researchers discovered a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-14899 that can be exploited to hijack active TCP connections in a VPN tunnel. The experts explained that in this way, it is possible to hijack active connections within the VPN tunnel. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-14899 , hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world. Iran-linked attackers targeted Pulse Secure, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Citrix VPNs to hack into large companies as part of the Fox Kitten Campaign. SecurityAffairs – Fox Kitten campaign, VPN ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

NSA is warning of multiple state-sponsored cyberespionage groups exploiting enterprise VPN Flaws. Last week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have been exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in enterprise VPN products in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663 critical flaw in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. The CVE-2019-1663 flaw received a CVSS score of 9.8, The tech giant fixed the issue in the following releases: RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall: 1.2.2.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The post APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the alert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. Threat actors leverage VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure, to breach into the target networks. ” reads the alert issued by the NCSC.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In an advisory , Fortinet said the path traversal vulnerability in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal may allow an attacker to download FortiOS system files through specially crafted HTTP resource requests. to 5.4.12; if the SSL VPN service (web-mode or tunnel-mode) is enabled. Affected products include FortiOS 6.0 – 6.0.0

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN credentials, stolen from 87,000 vulnerable FortiGate SSL-VPN devices. The vulnerable SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files via special crafted HTTP requests. The threat actor.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

A VPN protocol creates the tunnels that your traffic travels through when you use a VPN to keep your communications private. WireGuard and OpenVPN are two popular open-source VPN protocols that businesses and users can choose from when they sign up for a VPN service. Also Read: VPN Security Risks: Best Practices for 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. “The primary causes of the incident include the use of an outdated and vulnerable firmware version on the Fortigate VPN server (version 6.0.2 ” continues Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. data historians, OPC servers, cross-domain web applications, and VPN services), their exploitation could potentially allow attackers to move from the IT to the OT networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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. In all the intrusions, the attackers targeted Pulse Secure VPN appliances in the breached networks. “In reads the report published by FireEye. reads the advisory published by Pulse Secure.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. The phishers often will explain that they’re calling from the employer’s IT department to help troubleshoot issues with the company’s email or virtual private networking (VPN) technology. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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The Hacker News

JULY 15, 2021

The warning comes more than a month after reports emerged that remote access vulnerabilities in SonicWall SRA 4600 VPN appliances (CVE-2019-7481) are being x firmware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Zerodium is looking to pay for zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in the Windows clients of three virtual private network (VPN) service providers, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark. Zerodium is searching for information disclosure, IP address leak, or remote code execution in the Windows VPN software of the three service providers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 21, 2021

Cybersecurity news hounds The Record report that a spokesperson for the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) said the intrusion took place last month , on May 14 to be exact, through a vulnerability in a virtual private network (VPN) server. The weapon: a VPN vulnerability. The name of the VPN vendor is being kept secret.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Kaspersky reported how recent attacks against a series of European industrial networks were accomplished at a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Kaspersky is the first to report how those attacks were accomplished: a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Alexxsun / CC BY-SA 4.0 ).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

“Among active infections in 2019 are two separate locations of a private American company that offers services related to national security, from a university and a college in the U.S., “Threat actors often use commercial VPN services to hide their whereabouts when administering C&C servers and doing reconnaissance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2019, the United Nations released an estimate confirming that the North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong Un, had accumulated a staggering $2 billion by launching hacks on cryptocurrency firms and internationally recognized banks. The post North Korean cyber attacks income and free VPN data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Security researcher Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs discovered a privilege escalation flaw that impacts all versions of Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows except the latest release. “In our exploration, we found that after the Forcepoint VPN Client Service was started, the sgvpn.exe signed process was executed as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM.”

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

.” In the first week of September, Groove posted on its darknet blog nearly 500,000 login credentials for customers of Fortinet VPN products, usernames and passwords that could be used to remotely connect to vulnerable systems.

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Digital Guardian

APRIL 5, 2021

APT groups increasingly targeted CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 last month.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In doing this, TP-Link managed to grow their market share to 60% of the US retail market for WiFi systems and SOHO routersfrom 10% in 2019. Keep your online privacy yours by using Malwarebytes Privacy VPN. And the company reportedly has almost 80% of the US retail market for WiFi 7 mesh systems.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2021

Malware targeting Apple’s macOS is on the rise—and fast—according to an investigation by Atlas VPN, which reported 674,273 new malware samples were found in 2020, up from just 56,556 samples detected in 2019. The post Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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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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. The post Take action!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A threat actor has published online a list of one-line exploits to steal VPN credentials from over 49,000 vulnerable Fortinet VPNs. A threat actor, who goes online with the moniker “pumpedkicks,” has leaked online a list of exploits that could be exploited to steal VPN credentials from almost 50,000 Fortinet VPN devices.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

TransUnion, 2019: The credit reporting bureau reported the data compromise of 37,000 Canadians, however the nature and content of that compromise are not clear. . Use a VPN that you pay for: Having a VPN can make it much harder to steal your data and prevent identity theft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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