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On Friday, April 12, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on CVE-2024-3400, a CVSS 10 zero-day vulnerability in several versions of PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on the company’s firewalls. According to the vendor advisory, if conditions for exploitability Read More …
Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday. The vulnerability, which has been under active exploitation for at least two weeks now, allows Read More …
A stack-based overflow vulnerability [CWE-124] in FortiOS & FortiProxy may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or command via crafted packets reaching proxy policies or firewall policies with proxy mode alongside SSL deep packet inspection. Workaround: Disable deep Read More …
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are yet to be patched against a flaw being actively used in the wild, experts have revealed. Cybersecurity researchers from Bishop Fox recently used the Shodan.io search engine for internet-connected devices to look for Read More …
Mandiant is tracking a suspected China-nexus campaign believed to have exploited a recently announced vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN, CVE-2022-42475, as a zero-day. Evidence suggests the exploitation was occurring as early as October 2022 and identified targets include a European Read More …
More than 4,000 public-facing Sophos firewalls remain vulnerable to a critical remote code execution bug disclosed last year and patched months later, according to security researchers. The flaw, CVE-2022-3236, had already been exploited as a zero-day when Sophos published a Read More …
Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall restrictions for remote access. The malicious packages attempt to steal sensitive user information stored Read More …
Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China. “Performance and reliability for traffic flows across the mainland China border have been a consistent challenge for IT teams within multinational Read More …
A critical code-injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall has been fixed — but not before miscreants found and exploited the bug. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, exists in the User Portal and Webadmin components of the firewall in versions 19.0 and Read More …
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 Read More …