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Sophos details five years of China-linked threat actors’ activity targeting network devices worldwide

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Sophos, with the help of other cybersecurity firms, government, and law enforcement agencies investigated the cyber attacks and attributed them multiple China-linked APT groups, such as Volt Typhoon , APT31 and APT41 / Winnti. ” concludes the report.

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Danish critical infrastructure hit by the largest cyber attack in Denmark’s history

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Danish critical infrastructure was hit by the largest cyber attack on record that hit the country, according to Denmark’s SektorCERT. The vulnerability is an improper error message handling in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35.

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Attacks against Denmark ‘s energy sector were not carried out by Russia-linked APT

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Forescout experts questioned the attribution of cyber attacks that targeted the energy sector in Denmark in 2023 to the Russia-linked Sandworm. Forescout experts shared findings from their analysis of the cyber attacks that targeted the energy sector in Denmark in 2023, attributing them to the Russia-linked Sandworm.

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Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

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A list of the user IDs permitted to use the firewall for SSL VPN and accounts that were permitted to use a clientless VPN connection. Below is the attack scenario described by Sophos: Sophos pushed a hotfix to the firewalls after the discovery of the attacks. Passwords were not stored in plain text.

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WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

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CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . It’s used in different devices from different vendors, the affected devices sharing the firmware are: Netgear Stora. The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 309

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Clop Ransomware operators plunder US universities Malware attack on Applus blocked vehicle inspections in some US states 2,5M+ users can check whether their data were exposed in Facebook data leak 33.4%

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – News of the week

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. · Tech Support Scams improved with adoption of Call Optimization Service. · Dept.