Chinese hackers used a zero-day exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability in Sophos Firewall to compromise a company and breach cloud-hosted web servers operated by the victim.
The security issue has been fixed in the meantime but various threat actors continued to exploit it to bypass authentication and run arbitrary code remotely on multiple organizations.
On March 25, Sophos published a security advisory about CVE-2022-1040, an authentication bypass vulnerability that affects the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall and could be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely.
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Source: Bleeping Computer