- TOTOLINK X6000R: Three New Vulnerabilities Uncovered
October 1, 2025
Palo Alto security researchers have uncovered three vulnerabilities in the firmware of the TOTOLINK X6000R router, version V9.4.0cu.1360_B20241207, released on March 28, 2025: TOTOLINK is a manufacturer of networking products, including routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices used by consumers worldwide. The widespread adoption of these products makes their security a critical area of ...
- CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices
September 25, 2025
Today, CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices to address vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Cisco Firepower devices. CISA has added vulnerabilities CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Emergency Directive requires federal agencies to identify, analyze, and mitigate potential compromises immediately. Agencies ...
- WatchGuard warns users Firebox firewalls may have a critical issue
September 19, 2025
WatchGuard has fixed a critical-severity vulnerability affecting its Firebox firewalls and is urging users to apply the newly released patch without hesitation. In a security advisory, the company said it addressed an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the WatchGuard Fireware OS iked process, which “may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code”. The vulnerability was ...
- SonicWall customers told to reset credentials following firewall data breach
September 19, 2025
SonicWall is urging its firewall customers to reset their passwords after confirming it suffering a security incident which may have exposed their data. In a security announcement, SonicWall outlined how unnamed threat actors brute-forced their way into the company’s MySonicWall cloud service. This tool allows SonicWall firewall users (typically businesses and IT teams) to back up ...
- Another massive DDoS attack that reached 1.5 Bpps has been thwarted
September 13, 2025
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting a DDoS mitigation vendor somewhere in Western Europe has been spotted and mitigated by FastNetMon. The firm says the attack peaked at a massive 1.5 billion packets per second, making it one of the largest packet-rate floods confirmed to date. FastNetMon says that the traffic was mainly a UDP flood sourced ...
- Cookies: What they are for, associated risks, and what session hijacking has to do with it
September 2, 2025
When you visit almost any website, you’ll see a pop-up asking you to accept, decline, or customize the cookies it collects. Sometimes, it just tells you that cookies are in use by default. Kaspersky researchers randomly checked 647 websites, and 563 of them displayed cookie notifications. Most of the time, users don’t even pause to think ...
- Deception in Depth: PRC-nexus espionage campaign hijacks web traffic to target diplomats
August 25, 2025
This blog post presents Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) findings and analysis of this espionage campaign, as well as the evolution of the threat actor’s operational capabilities. GTIG examine how the malware is delivered, how the threat actor utilized social engineering and evasion techniques, and technical aspects of the multi-stage malware payloads. In this campaign, the ...
- The Resurgence of IoT Malware: Inside the Mirai-Based Botnet Campaign
August 22, 2025
Over the past year, FortiGuard Labs has been tracking a stealthy malware strain exploiting a range of vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. Initially disclosed by a Chinese cybersecurity firm under the name “Gayfemboy.” The malware resurfaced this past July with new activity, this time targeting vulnerabilities in products from vendors such as DrayTek, TP-Link, Raisecom, and Cisco, ...
- FBI: Russian Government Cyber Actors Targeting Networking Devices, Critical Infrastructure
August 20, 2025
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning the public, private sector, and international community of the threat posed to computer networks and critical infrastructure by cyber actors attributed to the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16. The FBI detected Russian FSB cyber actors exploiting Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and end-of-life networking devices running ...
- Cisco warns of worrying major security flaw in firewall command center – patch now
August 18, 2025
Cisco recently fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) product, and urged users to apply either the patch, or the mitigation, as soon as possible. FMC is a centralized platform for configuring, monitoring, and analyzing Cisco Secure Firewalls, where users can manage policies, track threat intelligence, and monitor their deployments across endpoints. ...
