Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Modernize your firewall for greater security resilience. Cybersecurity has changed dramatically since the dawn of firewalls in the 1980s. Today’s workers, data, and applications are everywhere, and firewalls must be as well. So, can your firewall grow with you? The firewall is a critical foundation for security.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

In February, hardware maker Zyxel fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its routers and VPN firewall products after KrebsOnSecurity told the company the flaw was being abused by attackers to break into devices. For those devices, Zyxel’s advice was not to leave them connected to the Internet. Zyxel issued a patch for the flaw on Feb.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Spoiler alert: I’m not going to join the cool club of pronouncing the firewall dead. The two main problems for the firewall to overcome in all those new deployment scenarios are insertion and visibility.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2024

SonicWall addressed a critical flaw in its firewalls that could allow attackers to achieve unauthorized access to the devices. SonicWall has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766 (CVSS score: 9.3), in its firewalls. 13o Gen 6 Firewalls – 6.5.2.8-2n 5035 and older versions.”

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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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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense provides unmatched security controls such as stateful firewalling, Snort3 IPS, URL filtering, malware defense, application visibility and control, and more. Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.1 will be available on Alkira’s service marketplace early 2022.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2021

Researchers have disclosed a nasty new way for bad people to mess up the internet for the rest of us. The post Great Firewall Ready to Unleash ‘Gigantic’ DDoS—so are Other Middleboxes appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Experts from Great Firewall Report analyzed recent upgrades to China’s Great Firewall and revealed that it can be circumvented. Members of the Great Firewall Report group have analyzed the recent improvement implemented for China’s Great Firewall censorship system and revealed that it is possible to bypass it.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The release of Microsoft Azure Gateway Load Balancer is great news for customers, empowering them to simply and easily add Cisco Secure Firewall capabilities to their Azure cloud infrastructure. It also offers a single entry and exit point at the firewall and allows organizations to maintain visibility of the source IP address.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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. Internet 2. Who Needs a Next-Gen Firewall?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

A China-linked APT, tracked as StormBamboo, compromised an internet service provider (ISP) to poison software update mechanisms with malware. The threat actors targeted insecure software update mechanisms to install malware on macOS and Windows victim machines. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2022

The rise of attacks is unavoidable and with the everyday announcement of a new strain of malware, ransomware and now data wipers, consumers find themselves asking: where do I start? Keep your firewall turned on. Some operating systems provide native software firewalls (such as Windows OS). How do I do this? Stelzhammer.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to a joint security advisory published yesterday by US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies, a new malware called Cyclops Blink has surfaced to replace the VPNFilter malware attributed to the Sandworm group, which has always been seen as a Russian state-sponsored group. Cyclops Blink.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual provides unmatched security controls such as stateful firewalling, Snort3 IPS, URL filtering, malware defense, application visibility and control, and more. Customers can seamlessly deploy and insert Secure Firewall in their Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (CXP).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

A VPN encrypts all internet traffic so that it is unreadable to anyone who intercepts it. This keeps your information away from prying eyes, such as internet service providers and hackers. Set up firewalls. Firewalls act as a defense line in preventing the possibility of threats entering your system. Secure home router.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Impacted devices include Unified Security Gateway (USG), ATP, USG FLEX and VPN firewalls products. Affected product series Patch available in Firewalls ATP series running firmware ZLD V4.60 Someone could for example change firewall settings to allow or block certain traffic. Patch1 in Dec. Patch1 in Dec. Patch1 in Dec.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Taiwanese vendor Zyxel addressed tens of vulnerabilities in its firewalls and access points. CVE-2023-35139 – A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CGI program of some firewall versions could allow an unauthenticated LAN-based attacker to store malicious scripts in a vulnerable device.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network.

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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. January 10, 2024 Thousands of WordPress Sites Vulnerable to Malware Injection Type of vulnerability: Cross-site scripting flaw in Popup Builder that allows a malware injection.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 13, 2022

Nine of the updates pushed this week address problems Microsoft considers “critical,” meaning the flaws they fix could be abused by malware or malcontents to seize total, remote access to a Windows system without any help from the user. . “Go patch your systems before that situation changes.”. 10 being the worst). .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. Larger enterprises use this to manage the spread of malware throughout a network in the event that one device is infected.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

February 6, 2024 is Safer Internet Day. When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. The internet has been around for quite some time now, and most of us wouldn’t know what to do without it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Chinese cyberespionage group Velvet Ant was spotted using custom malware to target F5 BIG-IP appliances to breach target networks. ’ The cyberspies deployed custom malware on F5 BIG-IP appliances to gain persistent access to the internal network of the target organization and steal sensitive data. Mitigate credential harvesting.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems. Firewalls predate SIEMs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2022

Based on a case study in 2015 , Akamai strengthened the theory that the malware may be of Asian origin based on its targets. Microsoft said that XorDDoS continues to home on Linux-based systems, demonstrating a significant pivot in malware targets. Such powerful attacks are no longer conducted just to disrupt.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

Threat actors are actively exploiting a command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, in Zyxel firewalls to install malware. Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , that impacts Zyxel firewalls. in its firewall devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

iLnkP2p is bundled with millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including security cameras and Webcams, baby monitors, smart doorbells, and digital video recorders. Many IoT devices can punch holes in firewalls using a feature built into hardware-based routers called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

The common wisdom goes that Linux malware is rare, and for the most part this is true. Thanks to its built-in security defenses, strict user privilege model, and transparent source code, Linux enjoys far fewer malware infections than other operating systems. Cloud Snooper. How it works. HiddenWasp. How it works. How it works.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

CISA released an alert today about several stealth malware samples that were found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a security alert related to the discovery of 13 malware samples on compromised Pulse Secure devices, many of which were undetected by antivirus products.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

A credential-stealing Windows-based malware, Spyware.FFDroider , is after social media credentials and cookies, according to researchers at ThreatLabz. It uses specific methods for each browser to exfiltrate the data stored in the target browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge. cn/eg/fr/de/in/it/co.jp/nl/pl/sa/sg/es/se/ae/co.uk/com/com.au/com.br/mx/tr

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? A potentially more impactful threat lies in the satellite internet access supply chain.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Antivirus programs and firewalls are pretty good at catching malware before it can infect devices, but occasionally malware can slip through defenses, endangering personal and financial information. We’ll go over malware removal tools and steps, and offer some tips to keep your devices from getting reinfected.

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