Tag: firewall
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Critical FortiWeb WAF Flaw Actively Exploited to Establish Admin Access and Seize Total Control
Fortinet has released urgent security updates to address a critical vulnerability in its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) that is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2025-64446, the flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute administrative commands and gain complete control of affected systems. The vulnerability has been assigned a critical severity rating with…
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Spam flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, spam, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.When Sonatype wrote about the campaign just over a year ago, it found a mere 15,000 packages that appeared to come from a single person.With the swollen numbers reported this week,…
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Worm flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.”It’s unfortunate that the worm isn’t under control yet,” said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, he predicted.”I’m sure somebody out there in the world is looking at this massively replicating worm and wondering if they can ride…
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TDL 009 – Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security Innovation
Tags: access, apple, attack, automation, backup, best-practice, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, country, crime, cybersecurity, data, dns, encryption, finance, firewall, government, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, linkedin, malicious, marketplace, middle-east, monitoring, msp, network, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, windows, zero-trustSummary Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security & Innovation In this episode of the Defenders Log, host David Redekop speaks with Tim Adams, the founder of the protective DNS resolver Scout DNS. Tim shares his origin story, explaining how he transitioned from a wireless network integrator to building his own DNS solution. He saw a…
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Fortinet confirms silent patch for FortiWeb zero-day exploited in attacks
Fortinet has silently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its FortiWeb web application firewall, which is now being widely exploited. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-confirms-silent-patch-for-fortiweb-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/
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Fortinet confirms silent patch for FortiWeb zero-day exploited in attacks
Fortinet has silently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its FortiWeb web application firewall, which is now being widely exploited. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-confirms-silent-patch-for-fortiweb-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Lets Attackers Force Firewall Reboots via Malicious Packets
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a denial-of-service vulnerability in its PAN-OS software that allows attackers to force firewalls into unexpected reboots using specially crafted network packets. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-4619, affects multiple versions of PAN-OS running on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls, as well as Prisma Access deployments. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to trigger…
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Fortinet FortiWeb Zero-Day Exploited to Gain Full Admin Access
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb has been actively exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to gain complete administrator access without any prior authentication. The flaw affects Fortinet’s Web Application Firewall, which is designed to protect web applications from malicious traffic. Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation On October 6, 2025, cyber deception company Defused published…
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Feds Fumble Cisco Patches as China-Linked Hackers Strike
CISA Says Agencies Believed They Patched Cisco Flaws But Had Not. The U.S. cyber defense agency issued new patch guidance after discovering multiple federal agencies failed to properly secure Cisco firewalls, leaving federal networks exposed to exploitation by a suspected Chinese threat actor despite a prior emergency directive. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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EOL-Software gefährdet Unternehmenssicherheit
Geräte mit End-of-Life-Software (EOL) stellen nach wie vor ein weit verbreitetes Sicherheitsproblem in Unternehmen dar.Laut einer Studie von Palo Alto Networks laufen 26 Prozent der Linux-Systeme und acht Prozent der Windows-Systeme mit veralteten Versionen. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf Telemetriedaten von 27 Millionen Geräten in den Netzwerken von 1.800 Unternehmen.Die Analyse offenbart zudem, dass 39 Prozent…
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CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government
The federal cybersecurity agency said some government departments had been actively exploited after failing to properly patch their systems. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/cisa-warns-federal-agencies-to-patch-flawed-cisco-firewalls-amid-active-exploitation-across-the-us-government/
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IT-Awards 2025 – Die beliebtesten Anbieter von Enterprise Network Firewalls 2025
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/beliebteste-enterprise-network-firewall-anbieter-2025-a-29771abd24eee2831ddb30ea03a8c10f/
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CISA warns of WatchGuard firewall flaw exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, which allows attackers to gain remote code execution on compromised devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-watchguard-firewall-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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CISA warns of WatchGuard firewall flaw exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, which allows attackers to gain remote code execution on compromised devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-watchguard-firewall-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of WatchGuard Firebox OutBounds Write Flaw
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, firewall, flaw, infrastructure, kev, network, risk, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability affecting WatchGuard Firebox firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, warning of active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9242, poses severe risks to organizations relying on these devices for network security. The Vulnerability WatchGuard Firebox firewalls contain an out-of-bounds write…
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NDSS 2025 Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
Tags: attack, china, conference, data-breach, dns, firewall, injection, Internet, monitoring, network, privacy, risk, side-channel, update, vulnerabilitySESSION Session 3A: Network Security 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shencha Fan (GFW Report), Jackson Sippe (University of Colorado Boulder), Sakamoto San (Shinonome Lab), Jade Sheffey (UMass Amherst), David Fifield (None), Amir Houmansadr (UMass Amherst), Elson Wedwards (None), Eric Wustrow (University of Colorado Boulder) PAPER Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of…
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From Firewalls to the Cloud: Unifying Security Policies Across Hybrid Environments
When your infrastructure spans firewalls, SD-WAN, containers, and multiple clouds, “secure” starts to mean a dozen different things. Each environment has its own controls, policies, and interfaces. Each team has… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/from-firewalls-to-the-cloud-unifying-security-policies-across-hybrid-environments/
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Beyond silos: How DDI-AI integration is redefining cyber resilience
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, business, cctv, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, finance, firewall, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iot, malicious, monitoring, network, penetration-testing, phishing, phone, RedTeam, resilience, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, sql, threat, tool, training, zero-trustDDI as the nervous system of enterprise security: DDI, including DNS, DHCP and IP address management, is the nervous system of the network. It records every connection, every name resolution and every IP allocation, maintaining the only comprehensive, authoritative record of normal network behavior.By itself, DDI data is simply a massive stream of logs. For…
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Beyond silos: How DDI-AI integration is redefining cyber resilience
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, business, cctv, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, finance, firewall, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iot, malicious, monitoring, network, penetration-testing, phishing, phone, RedTeam, resilience, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, sql, threat, tool, training, zero-trustDDI as the nervous system of enterprise security: DDI, including DNS, DHCP and IP address management, is the nervous system of the network. It records every connection, every name resolution and every IP allocation, maintaining the only comprehensive, authoritative record of normal network behavior.By itself, DDI data is simply a massive stream of logs. For…
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Cisco ASA und FTD akut gefährdet – Angreifer provozieren Neustarts ungepatchter Cisco-Firewalls
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cisco-systeme-angriffsvariante-cve-2025-20333-cve-2025-20362-a-00964e1ef07f585bc9b7789a690e6a7e/