Suspected Chinese Threat Actors Exploiting FortiOS Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42475)

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 …

Thousands of Sophos firewalls still vulnerable out there to hijacking

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 …

Juniper Networks Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Juniper Networks has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Juniper Networks’ security advisories page and Read More …

How Did the FBI Get a Tor User’s IP Address?

Polling the internet: what is the best way to de-anonymize a Tor user? Somebody over at the FBI definitely has a method, but they clearly aren’t planning on telling anybody anytime soon. Motherboard originally reported that the bureau has somehow Read More …

Fortinet: Government networks targeted with now-patched SSL-VPN zero-day

Fortinet says unknown attackers exploited a FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day vulnerability patched last month in attacks against government organizations and government-related targets. The security flaw (CVE-2022-42475) abused in these incidents is a heap-based buffer overflow weakness found in the FortiOS SSLVPNd Read More …

Malicious PyPi packages create CloudFlare Tunnels to bypass firewalls

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 …

Netgear warns users to patch recently fixed WiFi router bug

Netgear has fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting multiple WiFi router models and advised customers to update their devices to the latest available firmware as soon as possible. The flaw impacts multiple Wireless AC Nighthawk, Wireless AX Nighthawk (WiFi 6), and Read More …

Raspberry Robin Malware Targets Telecom, Governments

Trend Micro researchers found a malware sample allegedly capable of connecting to the Tor network to deliver its payloads. Their initial analysis of the malware, which compromised a number of organizations toward the end of September, showed that while the Read More …

New Fortinet bug under active exploitation

Fortinet has warned customers to patch immediately against a new vulnerability it said is under active exploitation. The critical-rated vulnerability exists in a VPN product, FortiOS SSL-VPN. In its advisory, the company said the bug is a heap-based buffer overflow. Read More …