Heimadal Security

JANUARY 10, 2022

Last week, Internet appliances provider SonicWall has revealed that the Y2K22 weakness has affected several of its email security and firewall products, leading to message log updates and junk box malfunctions starting January 1st, 2022.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With traditional firewalls, network security teams are charged with the heavy lifting of deploying new solutions. According to Gartner, by 2025, 30% of new deployments of distributed branch-office firewalls will switch to firewall-as-a-service, up from less than 10% in 2021. Introduction. Starting with version 7.1

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. government has previously attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU).

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds critical CVE-2022-30525 RCE flaw in Zyxel Firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Last week, Zyxel has addressed the critical CVE-2022-30525 (CVSS score: 9.8) Most of the CVE-2022-30525 affected models are in the EU – France (4.5K) and Italy (4.4K).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The threat to modern encryption In December 2022, a team of Chinese researchers claimed to have developed a quantum algorithm capable of factoring large integers used in RSA encryption. Attackers are intercepting and storing encrypted internet traffic in anticipation of future quantum decryptiona practice known as "store now, decrypt later."

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2022

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw affecting Zyxel firewall devices that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain arbitrary code execution. Zyxel has moved to address a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2022-30525, CVSS score: 9.8) Zyxel has moved to address a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2022-30525, CVSS score: 9.8)

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 15, 2025

I have been able to verify this dump is real, as devices in it are listed on Shodan and share the same unique serialnumbers: Dumped config with serial number, and Shodan internet scanning showing the same IP having the same serialnumber The dump is ordered by country. 2022 zero day was used to raid Fortigate firewall configs.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2022-40684: Admin Control over VPN Infrastructure What is CVE-2022-40684? Rated CVSS 9.8,

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

Keep an eye out for security announcements from your firewall vendors; it’s possible additional similar vulnerabilities will come to light. The problem: Juniper Networks released a bulletin about a remote code execution vulnerability in its SRX firewalls and EX switches. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-21591.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

FortiGate Network Firewall. Fortinet delivers FortiGate Network Firewalls that are right sized for small businesses to deliver easy-to-use enterprise-level security, good price-to-performance, and offer centralized cloud management that integrates into the larger Fortinet Security Fabric as the business grows. Key Differentiators.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2022

MSSPs arrived on the scene 15 years ago to supply device security as a contracted service: antivirus, firewalls, email security and the like. I had the chance to visit at Black Hat 2022 with Christopher Prewitt, CTO at Inversion6 , a Cleveland-based supplier managed IT security services. Guest expert: Chris Prewitt, CTO, Inversion6.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in 2022. Overall, the proportion of financially motivated zero-day exploitation decreased in 2022. Far more of the 16 cases with a clear motive were state-sponsored – 13 of the zero-days tracked in 2022 appear to have been leveraged by cyber espionage groups.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. .” ” warns Censys.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

. “An improper access control vulnerability has been identified in the SonicWall SonicOS management access and SSLVPN, potentially leading to unauthorized resource access and in specific conditions, causing the firewall to crash.” ” reads the SonicWall’s advisory. 5035 and older versions. ” reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Palo Alto Networks has brought its considerable security expertise to bear on the CASB and SaaS protection market with an offering that includes SaaS monitoring, compliance, DLP and threat protection, plus strong integration with Palo Alto firewalls and access solutions. Palo Alto Networks Features. Why Do You Need a CASB?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

We’ve narrowed this list down to four categories of software that are essential to modern cybersecurity: Extended detection and response (XDR) , next-generation firewalls (NGFW) , cloud access security brokers (CASB) , and security information and event management (SIEM). . NGFWs are the third generation of firewalls. Best NGFWs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 2,000 PDUs were directly exposed to the internet in 2021, and roughly a third of those were iBoot PDUs, according to a Censys research. However, the flaws discovered by Claroty can be used to get through NAT and firewalls and execute arbitrary code, allowing the attacker to turn off power to all the PDU-controlled devices.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently teamed to release their 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into cloud security topics from these predictions focusing on the targeting of API services and apps exploitation of containers in 2022. Internet of Things – More than 30.9 billion by 2026. vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group Google states that more than 40% of zero-day flaws discovered in 2022 were variants of previous issues. The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review.

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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. AllegisCyber Investments. Insight Partners.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Everyone who uses the internet or deals with a digital file or task uses an endpoint device. Back then, endpoint security focused on computers, which meant the installation of antivirus, malware protection, firewall, and (sometimes) VPN in every computer. Unfortunately, it is no longer as simple as it used to be in the past.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

ISP customer premise equipment (CPE) often uses this web server, and ISP subscribers will typically get these routers in loan for telephony and Internet access. released June 1, 2022). Derek Abdine found several vulnerabilities, one of which is: CVE-2022-31793 : Path traversal from the filesystem root. Path traversal.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) , tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. “This vulnerability is due to the presence of a static SSH host key.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Known vulnerabilities in internet-facing hardware are also sure to remain a popular penetration vector. Update firewalls and SSL VPN gateways in good time. And for some companies, the consequences of a security compromise in 2021 will catch up with them only in 2022. But not all. Threats to OT.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Samsung S22 hacked Sophos fixed a critical flaw in its Sophos Firewall version 19.5

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

While PCI Compliance has certainly seen a mix of both new trends and legacy approaches, let’s take a look at the newest and most talked-about topics in 2022: Approved Scanning Vendor Lessons Learned. In most cases, the scan target systems fail to complete due to scanner-reported session timeouts and unreachable hosts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The state-sponsored hackers exploited the CVE-2022-47966 RCE vulnerability in Zoho ManageEngine. The CVE-2022-47966 flaw is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that impacts multiple Zoho products with SAML SSO enabled in the ManageEngine setup. The vulnerability was addressed by the company on October 27th, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

Privilege and other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Malware Protection Engine, Internet Explorer and more (27 in all). Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022. Also read: Top Microsegmentation Tools for 2022. Read next: Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at Cyble have observed initial access brokers (IABs) selling access to enterprise networks likely compromised via a recently patched critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684 , in Fortinet products. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the CVE-2022-40684 flaw has been released online. ” concludes the post.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Following a successful debut in November 2022, Matter is picking up steam, Nelson told me. Spoofed email is getting through our firewalls and filtering systems because the attackers are constantly migrating and finding new ways to penetrate these systems,” Coclin says. Consumer awareness is growing and evolving.

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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

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

JANUARY 15, 2025

released in October 2022. “The build date coded in the last number block also points to the same date range: None of the firewall firmwares examined had been compiled after September 14, 2022.” The analysis of the configuration files revealed that all the FortiOS versions in the data set were older than version 7.2.2,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

“It is recommended that your QNAP NAS stay behind your router and firewall without a public IP address. ” The vendor also recommends enabling the VPN server function on the user router to access QNAP NAS from the Internet. ” reads the advisory published by QNAP. Do not let your QNAP NAS obtain a public IP address.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. Researchers estimate that: 40% of industrial sites have at least one direct connection to the internet with at least one Industrial Control System (ICS) device exposed.

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