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A pro-Russian group created a crowdsourced project called 'DDOSIA' that pays volunteers launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against western entities. In hacktivist DDoS attacks, volunteers don't get a monetary reward.

Cisco on Wednesday released patches to contain multiple flaws in its software that could be abused to leak sensitive information on susceptible appliances.The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-20866, has been described as a "Logic error" when handling RSA keys on devices running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software.

Cisco has warned users of its Firepower firewalls - physical and virtual - that they may need to upgrade their kit within a four-day window or miss out on security intelligence updates.A Monday Field Notice advised that the SSL certificate authority used to sign certificates for Talos security intelligence updates will be decommissioned and replaced on March 6, 2022.

Cisco has addressed a vulnerability in the Firepower Device Manager On-Box software that could be exploited to gain code execution on vulnerable devices. FDM On-Box is used to configure Cisco Firepower firewalls, providing administrators with both management and diagnostics capabilities.

Specifically affected is Cisco's Firepower Threat Defense software, which is part of its suite of network security and traffic management products; and its Adaptive Security Appliance software, the operating system for its family of ASA corporate network security devices. The most severe flaw exists in the web service interfaces for ASA software and FTD software.

A high-severity vulnerability affecting Cisco ASA and Firepower security appliances is being exploited in the wild after an exploit has been released online on Friday. “Cisco PSIRT has become...



