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Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigation
2024-04-17 09:29

While it initially seemed that protecting Palo Alto Network firewalls from attacks leveraging CVE-2024-3400 would be possible by disabling the devices' telemetry, it has now been comfirmed that this mitigation is ineffectual."Device telemetry does not need to be enabled for PAN-OS firewalls to be exposed to attacks related to this vulnerability," Palo Alto Networks noted on Tuesday, and said they are aware of an "Increasing number of attacks that leverage the exploitation of this vulnerability."

Palo Alto Networks fixes zero-day exploited to backdoor firewalls
2024-04-15 12:59

Palo Alto Networks has started releasing hotfixes for a zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited since March 26th to backdoor PAN-OS firewalls. This maximum severity security flaw affects PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls with device telemetry and GlobalProtect enabled.

Week in review: Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, Microsoft patches two exploited zero-days
2024-04-14 08:00

Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming!Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks' firewalls, the company has warned, and urged customers to implement temporary mitigations and get in touch to check whether their devices have been compromised. It can handle almost anything, and someone once called it the kitchen sink of PKI. Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-daysOn this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn't marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, has found being leveraged by attackers in the wild.

Palo Alto Networks zero-day exploited since March to backdoor firewalls
2024-04-13 12:35

Suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewalls tracked as CVE-2024-3400 since March 26, using the compromised devices to breach internal networks, steal data and credentials. Palo Alto Networks warned yesterday that hackers were actively exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in its PAN-OS firewall software and that patches would be available on April 14.

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS firewall zero-day used in attacks
2024-04-12 13:28

Today, Palo Alto Networks warns that an unpatched critical command injection vulnerability in its PAN-OS firewall is being actively exploited in attacks. "Palo Alto Networks is aware of a limited number of attacks that leverage the exploitation of this vulnerability," warns the Palo Alto security bulletin.

Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming! (CVE-2024-3400)
2024-04-12 07:32

Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks' firewalls, the company has warned, and urged customers to implement temporary mitigations and get in touch to check whether their devices have been compromised."Palo Alto Networks is aware of a limited number of attacks that leverage the exploitation of this vulnerability," they said, and thanked Volexity researchers for flagging the issue.

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2024-03-27 16:21

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Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM
2024-03-05 01:32

Doing so helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks against the model, or other situations that would overwhelm the LLM with requests and disrupt its ability to process legitimate requests. The firewall can be deployed in front of any LLM, Molteni told The Register.

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs
2024-01-16 17:02

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are still vulnerable to years-old vulnerabilities, an infosec reseacher claims. "SSD Labs previously stated that in both cases, cybercrims are"tasked with exploiting a stack overflow vulnerability to cause the DoS - remotely carried out by sending a malicious HTTP request.

Alert: Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls Potentially Vulnerable to Exploits - Act Now
2024-01-16 13:39

Over 178,000 SonicWall firewalls exposed over the internet are exploitable to at least one of the two security flaws that could be potentially exploited to cause a denial-of-service (DoS)...