Security News

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...

US sanctions Chinese firm for hacking firewalls in ransomware attacks
2024-12-10 16:37

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Chinese cybersecurity company Sichuan Silence and one of its employees for their involvement in a series of Ragnarok ransomware attacks targeting U.S....

SafeLine: Open-source web application firewall (WAF)
2024-12-04 05:30

SafeLine is an open-source and self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects websites from cyber attacks. “SafeLine WAF was created to protect web applications for small and...

Week in review: 0-days exploited in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, two unknown Linux backdoors identified
2024-11-24 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices compromised in latest attacks Attackers have compromised around...

1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole
2024-11-22 21:27

PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The...

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.3: SDN-firewall integration, faster container backups, and more!
2024-11-22 07:55

The Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.3 enterprise virtualization solution features management tools and a user-friendly web interface, allowing you to deploy open-source solutions in clustered,...

Over 2,000 Palo Alto firewalls hacked using recently patched bugs
2024-11-21 19:46

Hackers have already compromised thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls in attacks exploiting two recently patched zero-day vulnerability vulnerabilities. [...]

Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches
2024-11-19 15:29

Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers Palo Alto Networks (PAN) finally released a CVE identifier and patch for the zero-day exploit that caused such a fuss...

Palo Alto Networks patches two firewall zero-days used in attacks
2024-11-18 20:50

Palo Alto Networks has finally released security updates for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW). [...]