Tag: firewall
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CVE-2025-40602: SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Zero-Day Exploited
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, control, cve, cyber, data, exploit, firewall, flaw, injection, international, mobile, ransomware, sql, vulnerability, zero-dayA zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 was reportedly exploited in the wild in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006. Key takeaways: CVE-2025-40602 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the appliance management console (AMC) of the SonicWall SMA 1000 appliance. CVE-2025-40602 has been exploited in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006, a deserialization…
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‘Ink Dragon’ threat group targets IIS servers to build stealthy global network
Tags: access, attack, china, control, credentials, data, exploit, firewall, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, microsoft, network, office, threat, vulnerability, wafmodus operandi to several other Chinese threat groups engaged in nation-state surveillance, such as UNC6384, whose campaigns targeted European diplomats.However, during a recent investigation at the office of a European government, Check Point said it had discovered that the group has now pivoted towards what it called “an unusually sophisticated playbook” with longer term goals.Key…
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Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718)
Attackers are exploiting a recently revealed vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to bypass authentication on Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, and are leveraging the achieved … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/17/fortigate-vulnerability-cve-2025-59718-exploited/
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Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718)
Attackers are exploiting a recently revealed vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to bypass authentication on Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, and are leveraging the achieved … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/17/fortigate-vulnerability-cve-2025-59718-exploited/
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FortiGate firewall credentials being stolen after vulnerabilities discovered
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, breach, ceo, cisa, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, flaw, fortinet, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, kev, least-privilege, login, malicious, network, password, software, theft, threat, update, vulnerabilityCSO. “So far, the pattern of activity has appeared to be opportunistic in nature. While it is difficult to estimate the number of devices directly vulnerable to this vulnerability, there are hundreds of thousands of Fortinet appliances accessible on the public internet through specialized search engines. This allows threat actors to opportunistically attempt exploitation against…
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Real Attacks of the Week: How Spyware Beaconing and Exploit Probing Are Shaping Modern Intrusions
Over the past week, enterprise security teams observed a combination of covert malware communication attempts and aggressive probing of publicly exposed infrastructure. These incidents, detected across firewall and endpoint security layers, demonstrate how modern cyber attackers operate simultaneously. While quietly activating compromised internal systems, they also relentlessly scan external services for exploitable weaknesses. Although the…
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Product showcase: GlassWire mobile firewall for Android
GlassWire is a free network monitoring and security application for Windows and Android. It lets you see how your system communicates over the internet and local network. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/product-showcase-glasswire-firewall-android/
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Identity Risk Is Now the Front Door to Enterprise Breaches (and How Digital Risk Protection Stops It Early)
Most enterprise breaches no longer begin with a firewall failure or a missed patch. They begin with an exposed identity. Credentials harvested from infostealers. Employee logins are sold on criminal forums. Executive personas impersonated to trigger wire fraud. Customer identities stitched together from scattered exposures. The modern breach path is identity-first, and that shift… First…
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Windows Defender Firewall Flaw Allows Attackers to Access Sensitive Data
Microsoft has officially addressed a new security vulnerability affecting the Windows Defender Firewall Service that could allow threat actors to access sensitive information on compromised systems. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-62468, was disclosed as part of the company’s December 2025 security updates. This information disclosure vulnerability poses a risk to organizations that rely on standard…
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Windows Defender Firewall Flaw Allows Attackers to Access Sensitive Data
Microsoft has officially addressed a new security vulnerability affecting the Windows Defender Firewall Service that could allow threat actors to access sensitive information on compromised systems. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-62468, was disclosed as part of the company’s December 2025 security updates. This information disclosure vulnerability poses a risk to organizations that rely on standard…
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Rack-Firewall für den universellen Einsatzzweck
Die neue Firewall Lancom-R&S-UF-560 Lancom Systems erweitert das etablierte Rack-Firewall-Portfolio mit einem Mittelklasse-Modell optimiert für mittelständische Unternehmen und öffentliche Auftraggeber. Damit bietet die Rack-Modellreihe der Lancom-R&S-Unified-Firewalls eine komplette Abdeckung aller Rack-Firewalle, von Einstieg bis Enterprise. Im November 2025 hat die Digitalministerkonferenz (DMK) in Berlin richtungsweisende Beschlüsse zur digitalen Zukunft Deutschlands und Europas gefasst. Das […]…
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Rack-Firewall für den universellen Einsatzzweck
Die neue Firewall Lancom-R&S-UF-560 Lancom Systems erweitert das etablierte Rack-Firewall-Portfolio mit einem Mittelklasse-Modell optimiert für mittelständische Unternehmen und öffentliche Auftraggeber. Damit bietet die Rack-Modellreihe der Lancom-R&S-Unified-Firewalls eine komplette Abdeckung aller Rack-Firewalle, von Einstieg bis Enterprise. Im November 2025 hat die Digitalministerkonferenz (DMK) in Berlin richtungsweisende Beschlüsse zur digitalen Zukunft Deutschlands und Europas gefasst. Das […]…
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Mit der Firewall v22 festigt Sophos sein ‘Secure by Design”-Versprechen
Sophos hat die Veröffentlichung der Sophos-Firewall v22 bekannt gegeben. Das Update erweitert das ‘Secure by Design”-Versprechen des Unternehmens um eine neue Integritätsprüfung und zahlreiche weitere Sicherheitsverbesserungen, darunter ein gehärteter Kernel, Remote-Integritätsüberwachung, verbesserte Workload-Isolation und eine optimierte Anti-Malware-Engine. ‘Wir investieren kontinuierlich in die Implementierung der “šSecure by Design’-Prinzipien in all unsere Produkte”, so Ross McKerchar, CISO…
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Mit der Firewall v22 festigt Sophos sein ‘Secure by Design”-Versprechen
Sophos hat die Veröffentlichung der Sophos-Firewall v22 bekannt gegeben. Das Update erweitert das ‘Secure by Design”-Versprechen des Unternehmens um eine neue Integritätsprüfung und zahlreiche weitere Sicherheitsverbesserungen, darunter ein gehärteter Kernel, Remote-Integritätsüberwachung, verbesserte Workload-Isolation und eine optimierte Anti-Malware-Engine. ‘Wir investieren kontinuierlich in die Implementierung der “šSecure by Design’-Prinzipien in all unsere Produkte”, so Ross McKerchar, CISO…
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Secure by Design auch eine Frage der Firewall
Sophos hat heute die Veröffentlichung der Sophos Firewall v22 (SFOS v22) bekannt gegeben. Das Update erweitert das ‘Secure by Design”-Versprechen des Unternehmens um eine neue Integritätsprüfung und zahlreiche weitere Sicherheitsverbesserungen, darunter ein gehärteter Kernel, Remote-Integritätsüberwachung, verbesserte Workload-Isolation und eine optimierte Anti-Malware-Engine. ‘Wir investieren kontinuierlich in die Implementierung der “šSecure by Design’-Prinzipien in all unsere Produkte”,…
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Marquis Software Breach Affects Over 780,000 Nationwide
A data breach at Marquis Software Solutions due to a firewall flaw has affected over 780,000 people across the US First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/marquis-software-breach/
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WatchGuard Firebox Vulnerabilities Let Hackers Skip Integrity Validation and Plant Malicious Code
WatchGuard Technologies has disclosed critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Firebox firewall products that could allow attackers to bypass system integrity checks and execute malicious code. The company released patches on December 4, 2025, addressing six distinct vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to enterprise network security. Multiple WatchGuard Firebox Vulnerabilities One of the most concerning flaws…
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WatchGuard Firebox Vulnerabilities Let Hackers Skip Integrity Validation and Plant Malicious Code
WatchGuard Technologies has disclosed critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Firebox firewall products that could allow attackers to bypass system integrity checks and execute malicious code. The company released patches on December 4, 2025, addressing six distinct vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to enterprise network security. Multiple WatchGuard Firebox Vulnerabilities One of the most concerning flaws…
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Wirkliche Cyberresilienz: Cybersicherheit ist eine Angelegenheit der Unternehmenskultur
Im Falle eines erfolgreichen Angriffs sind die Schuldigen mitunter schnell gefunden: Eine Lücke in der Firewall, eine geöffnete Phishing-Mail oder eine übersehene Warnmeldung. Doch ein Blick in die Praxis zeigt: IT-Sicherheit scheitert nicht an Technologien oder Fehlverhalten, sondern bereits grundsätzlich an einem Mangel an Unternehmenskultur. Wenn Cybersicherheit in einer Organisation nur als eine schlecht durchgesetzte……
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Warning: React2Shell vulnerability already being exploited by threat actors
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, china, cloud, communications, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, framework, group, infosec, intelligence, linux, malicious, malware, open-source, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSystem.Management.Automation.AmsiUtils.amsiInitFailed = true (a standard AMSI bypass), and iex executes the next stage.JFrog’s security research team also today reported finding a working proof of concept that leads to code execution, and they and others have also reported finding fake PoCs containing malicious code on GitHub. “Security teams must verify sources before testing [these PoCs],” warns JFrog.Amitai Cohen, attack…
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React Flaw Mitigation Leads to Cloudflare Outage
Outage Briefly Took Down Zoom, LinkedIn and Other Websites. Content delivery network giant Cloudflare is investigating a brief outage early Friday that took down multiple websites. The incident marks the second outage in the span of a month, although the causes are unrelated. It stemmed from how Cloudflare’s web application firewall parses requests. First seen…
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Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month
A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366635992/Cloudflare-fixes-second-outage-in-a-month
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15 years in, zero trust remains elusive, with AI rising to complicate the challenge
Legacy systems that weren’t designed for zero trust principles,Fragmented identity and access tools that make unified enforcement difficult, andCultural and organizational resistance to changing long-standing trust models.Kyle Wickert, field CTO at AlgoSec, says zero trust remains one of the most misunderstood transformations in cybersecurity.”Many organizations still hesitate to pursue it because they associate zero trust…
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Das CISO-Paradoxon: Innovation ermöglichen und Risiken managen
Tags: ai, api, authentication, ciso, cyberattack, edr, encryption, firewall, governance, infrastructure, least-privilege, risk, siem, soc, update, vulnerability, waf, zero-dayCISOs sollten eng mit anderen Teams zusammenarbeiten.Eine der Hauptaufgaben von CISOs besteht darin, nicht mehr die ‘Abteilung des Neins” zu sein. Sie müssen Wege finden, die schnelle Bereitstellung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen für das Unternehmen zu ermöglichen, ohne gleichzeitig neue Risiken einzuführen.Das ist, kurz gesagt, das Paradoxon. In einem Umfeld, in dem Produktteams ständig neue…
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Suspicious traffic could be testing CDN evasion, says expert
“Cf-Warp-Tag-Id,” which is associated with Cloudflare’s Warp VPN service;”X-Fastly-Request-Id,”, which is associated with the Fastly CDN;”X-Akamai-Transformed,” a header added by Akamai;and a puzzler: “X-T0Ken-Inf0.” Ullrich thinks it might contain a form of authentication token, but isn’t sure.In an interview, he said one explanation is that a threat actor is trying to get around a CDN’s…