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Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

Security Affairs

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. It was designed to download payloads intended to exfiltrate XG Firewall-resident data.

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Cisco Security

Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3. Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers. allows for the fingerprinting of traffic that is using the QUIC Protocol in Secure Firewall 7.3. Reduced TCO.

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Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day issue in Sophos firewall

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity firm Sophos releases an emergency patch to address an SQL injection flaw in its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released an emergency patch to address an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability affecting its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild.

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Sophos blocked attacks exploiting XG Firewall zero-day to deploy Ransomware

Security Affairs

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. The customer noticed “a suspicious field value visible in the management interface.”. “The

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Zyxel fixed four bugs in firewalls and access points

Security Affairs

Taiwanese vendor Zyxel warns of security vulnerabilities in its firewalls and access points, including a remote code execution flaw. Taiwanese networking vendor Zyxel addressed four vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-6397 , CVE-2023-6398 , CVE-2023-6399 , and CVE-2023-6764 , in its firewalls and access points.

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PingRAT: secretly passes C2 traffic through firewalls using ICMP payloads

Penetration Testing

PingRAT PingRAT secretly passes C2 traffic through firewalls using ICMP payloads.

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What Is a Next-Generation Firewall?

eSecurity Planet

A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. Unlike more basic firewalls that only check the header of data packets, NGFWs examine and evaluate the payload data within the packet. Who Needs a Next-Gen Firewall?

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