Bleeping Computer

JUNE 22, 2021

New findings have emerged that shed light on a critical SonicWall vulnerability disclosed last year, which affected over 800,000 VPN firewalls and was initially thought to have been patched.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Hackers attempted to exploit a zero-day flaw in the Sophos XG firewall to distribute ransomware to Windows machines, but the attack was blocked. It was designed to download payloads intended to exfiltrate XG Firewall-resident data. Sophos was informed of the attacks exploiting the zero-day issue by one of its customers on April 22.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20019 , in SonicWall VPN appliances was only partially patched last year and could allow a remote attacker to steal sensitive data. The flaw resides in the HTTP/HTTPS service used for product management as well as SSL VPN remote access. “An 6.5.1.12, 6.0.5.3, SonicOSv 6.5.4.v

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Palo Alto Networks warns of an easy exploitable Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its GlobalProtect VPN product. Exploitation of these together yields remote code execution under the privileges of the affected component on the firewall device.” 2020-11-19: Randori discovered the buffer overflow vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed a critical flaw in the PAN-OS of its next-generation firewalls that could allow attackers to bypass authentication. Palo Alto Networks addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2021 , in the operating system ( PAN?OS x base score of 10. . x base score of 10. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

VPNs or Virtual Private Networks were born out of necessity for businesses to keep their data safe while employees accessed these private networks. Unlike the original PPTP protocol, VPN allows many users and devices simultaneous access to private networks across a very public internet.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Firewalls are as central to IT security as antivirus programs are to PCs, and the multi-billion-dollar market remains large and growing. But the term “firewall” is far too broad to be of much use to IT security buyers. Types of Firewalls. What is a Firewall? Firewalls protect both on-premises and cloud environments.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Sophos used custom implants to monitor China-linked thret actors targeting firewall zero-days in a years-long battle. Improved operational security, including disrupting firewall telemetry to hinder detection and minimize their digital footprint.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

The company was targeted with a coordinated attack on its internal systems, threat actors exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in their VPN solutions, such as NetExtender VPN client version 10.x Below the list of affected products shared by THN: NetExtender VPN client version 10.x x and Secure Mobile Access ( SMA ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Threat actors are attempting to hack Zyxel devices exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2020-29583, security researchers warn. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 22, 2021

New findings have emerged that shed light on a critical SonicWall vulnerability disclosed last year, which affected over 800,000 VPN firewalls and was initially thought to have been patched.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls. Palo Alto Networks has issued security updates to address tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Then a global pandemic came along and laid bare just how brittle company VPNs truly are. Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. Two sweeping trends resulted: one bad, one good.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CVE-2023-27997 (Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy SSL-VPN): A remote user can craft specific requests to execute arbitrary code or commands. CVE-2020-1472 (Microsoft Netlogon): Allows privilege escalation. CVE-2023-20273 (Cisco IOS XE): Allows privilege escalation once a local user has been created to root privileges.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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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

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

MARCH 16, 2021

“The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing.

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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

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. through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

it came as a shock as this was my first big event after, well, RSA 2020. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…).

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. With release 7.3.2, SAL provides central log management to streamline IT operations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Enter VPN technology. One longtime cybersecurity solution for small teams up to global enterprise networks is virtual private networks (VPN). VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Top VPN products. CyberGhost VPN.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8 The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-25159, has received a CVSS score of 9.8 Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls, and isolate them from the business network. Also recognize that VPN is only as secure as the connected devices.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. With release 7.3.2, SAL provides central log management to streamline IT operations.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Connect to a secure network and use a company-issued Virtual Private Network (VPN). Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. Keep your personal and corporate devices on separate Wi-Fi networks. Update your software.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis. Most of the attacks between January and May 2020 originated from IP addresses in the U.S., Install a virtual private network ( VPN ) gateway to broker all RDP connections from outside your local network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Vermont Medical Center). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 295 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

One report found that attacks targeting RDP rose 30% in March 2020 as the work-from-home revolution began. The most effective single action is to use an RDP gateway, which restricts RDP access through a firewall and additional login page. Here are a few of the most pressing vulnerabilities with this software you should know about.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

Pulse Secure VPN. CISA found that the attacker(s) had access to the enterprise’s network for nearly a year, between March 2020 and February 2021. According to its investigation, the threat actor connected to the entity’s network via a Pulse Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) appliance. CVE-2020-10148.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance. Check Point is a veteran enterprise security vendor that integrates remote access capabilities into every next-generation firewall (NGFW). Read more : Secure Access for Remote Workers: RDP, VPN, & VDI.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

The design flaws were assigned the following CVEs: CVE-2020-24588 : Aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames). CVE-2020-24587 : Mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys). CVE-2020-24586 : Fragment cache attack (not clearing fragments from memory when (re)connecting to a network).

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

CISA assigned CVE-2020-1938 to the flaw, which stems from the use of Apache JServ (AJP). Administrators should locate control system networks and remote devices, place them behind firewalls, and isolate the devices from the enterprise network. Also recognize that VPN is only as secure as the connected devices,” the alert reads.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

The Zyxel Cloud CNM SecuManager is a comprehensive network management software that provides an integrated console to manage security gateways including the ZyWALL USG and VPN Series. Also, there is no firewall by default.” log escape sequence injection xmppCnrSender.py ” reads the report published by the researchers.

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