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Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used
2025-01-14 01:43

Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg Miscreants running a "mass exploitation campaign" against Fortinet firewalls, which peaked in December, may be using an...

Hackers exploit KerioControl firewall flaw to steal admin CSRF tokens
2025-01-08 18:55

Hackers are trying to exploit CVE-2024-52875, a critical CRLF injection vulnerability that leads to 1-click remote code execution (RCE) attacks in GFI KerioControl firewall product. [...]

Hackers exploit DoS flaw to disable Palo Alto Networks firewalls
2024-12-27 16:33

Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are exploiting the CVE-2024-3393 denial of service vulnerability to disable firewall protections by forcing it to reboot. [...]

Sophos discloses critical Firewall remote code execution flaw
2024-12-20 15:31

Sophos has addressed three vulnerabilities in its Sophos Firewall product that could allow remote unauthenticated threat actors to perform SQL injection, remote code execution, and gain privileged...

Sophos Firewall vulnerable to critical remote code execution flaw
2024-12-20 15:31

Sophos has addressed three vulnerabilities in its Sophos Firewall product that could allow remote unauthenticated threat actors to perform SQL injection, remote code execution, and gain privileged...

Sophos Issues Hotfixes for Critical Firewall Flaws: Update to Prevent Exploitation
2024-12-20 08:13

Sophos has released hotfixes to address three security flaws in Sophos Firewall products that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and allow privileged system access under certain...

Over 25,000 SonicWall VPN Firewalls exposed to critical flaws
2024-12-17 15:27

Over 25,000 publicly accessible SonicWall SSLVPN devices are vulnerable to critical severity flaws, with 20,000 using a SonicOS/OSX firmware version that the vendor no longer supports. [...]

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls
2024-12-11 06:29

The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and...

US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls
2024-12-11 05:02

Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware The US Departments of Treasury and Justice have named a Chinese business and one of its employees as...

US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company for firewall compromise, ransomware attacks
2024-12-10 20:34

The Department of the Treasury is sanctioning Chinese cybersecurity company Sichuan Silence, and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, for their roles in the April 2020 compromise of tens of...