The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. Here are the key takeaways: Surprise packages. Decryption bottleneck.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CVE-2023-27350 (PaperCut MF/NG): Allows a malicious cyber actor to chain an authentication bypass vulnerability with the abuse of built-in scripting functionality to execute code. CVE-2020-1472 (Microsoft Netlogon): Allows privilege escalation.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

it earned a spot on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) list of the 15 most exploited flaws from 2020 to 2022. This ensures that even if attackers extract VPN credentials, they can’t use them without the secondary authentication that exists outside the compromised system. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Cyber Command believes foreign APTs will likely attempt to exploit the recently addressed flaw in Palo Alto Networks’s PAN-OS firewall OS. Recently Palo Alto Network addressed a critical vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2020-2021, affecting the PAN-OS operating system that powers its next-generation firewall.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

x (released in 2020) utilized to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) version 10.x x (released in 2020) utilized to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) version 10.x

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed a new severe vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal that impacts PAN next-generation firewalls. Recently Palo Alto Network addressed a critical vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2020-2021, affecting the PAN-OS operating system that powers its next-generation firewall. x base score of 10.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. ” reads the advisories published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software. Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to patch critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

.” Below the disclosure timeline: March 23, 2020 – Wordfence Threat Intelligence discovers and analyzes vulnerabilities. March 24, 2020 – Initial contact with the plugin’s developer team. Firewall rule released for Wordfence Premium users. March 26, 2020 – Patched version of plugin released.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The experts found six vulnerabilities in B&R Automation’s SiteManager and GateManager ( CVE-2020-11641 , CVE-2020-11642 , CVE-2020-11643 , CVE-2020-11644 , CVE-2020-11645 , CVE-2020-11646 ) that could potentially disrupt operations. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. Base Score CVE-2020-6925 Weak Cipher All versions of HP Device Manager 7.0

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. SolarWinds subsequently disclosed to the SEC that threat actors inserted Sunburst into the Orion updates issued to customers between March and June 2020.

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Threatpost

JUNE 30, 2020

An authentication-bypass vulnerability allows attackers to access network assets without credentials when SAML is enabled on certain firewalls and enterprise VPNs.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Like a classic network-layer firewall, CrowdSec allows administrators to configure all sorts of OSI Middle Level (i.e., Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 22, 2022

increase on 2020 levels. Ransomware cost businesses and individuals $18 billion in 2020, with the average sum paid totaling $220,298 in the first quarter of 2021. 3 Enable multi-factor authentication. 5 Make use of windows firewall. Ensure that your windows firewall is working by configuring it regularly.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon M221 PLCs were reported by Trustwave, three of which have been independently found by the security firm Claroty. “Schneider Electric is aware of multiple vulnerabilities in its Modicon M221 product. .” ” Reads the advisory published by Schneider Electric.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And security experts from Check Point believe that the malicious software has so far targeted over 140,000 victims since November 2020, hitting high profile victims including those on PayPal, Microsoft, Amazon, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 What appears to have happened is that in order to address "security vulnerabilities on the plug", TP-Link issued a firmware update that killed the HA integration. Looks like @tplinkuk broke it with a firmware update which will now break a bunch of stuff around the house.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The IT giant issued 25 advisories as part of the September 2020 semiannual IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication. Two vulnerabilities can allow authenticated attackers with local access to the target devices to execute arbitrary code. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Cisco released security updates to fix multiple pre-authentication RCE flaws with public exploits affecting Cisco Security Manager. Cisco has released security updates to address multiple pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerabilities with public exploits affecting Cisco Security Manager (CSM). and earlier.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. At the same time, WAF technology is increasingly a part of more comprehensive security solutions like next-generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management (UTM), and more. Best Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Amazon Web Services.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls used by many critical infrastructure operators in Denmark. On April 25, 2023, Zyxel disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8), tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , in a number of their firewalls. According to the report, 11 companies were immediately compromised.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

“On April 27, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) vulnerability in Ninja Forms , a WordPress plugin with over 1 million installations.” April 27, 2020 19:24 UTC – We provide full disclosure to the plugin’s developer as per their Responsible Security Disclosure Policy.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

“Between May 29 and May 31, 2020, the Wordfence Firewall blocked over 130 million attacks intended to harvest database credentials from 1.3 “The peak of this attack campaign occurred on May 30, 2020. million sites by downloading their configuration files.” ” reads the post published by WordFence.

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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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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. through 7.0.16 Upgrade to 7.0.17 through 7.0.19

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” The first critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7048 , has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.1. The experts discovered that none of the database reset functions were secured potentially allowing any user to reset any database table without authentication. . January 14th, 2020 – Patch released.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Incapsula was acquired by web application firewall vendor Imperva. Connectivity was relatively uncomplicated. And given a tangible network perimeter, cybersecurity evolved following the moat-and-wall principle.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

The frame aggregation feature of Wi-Fi uses an “is aggregated” flag that is not authenticated and can be modified by an adversary. The design flaws were assigned the following CVEs: CVE-2020-24588 : Aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames). CVE-2020-26147 : Linux kernel 5.8.9 CVE-2020-26142 : OpenBSD 6.6

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The vendor has published 40 security advisories related to security vulnerabilities in the Junos OS operating system that runs on Juniper’s firewalls and other third-party components. “If SAML authentication is not enabled, the product is not affected. . “If SAML authentication is not enabled, the product is not affected.

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