An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal") in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.3 to 5.6.7 and 5.4.6 to 5.4.12 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 under SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated malicious user to download system files via special crafted HTTP resource requests.
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Latest tools, tactics, and procedures being used by the Hive, Conti, and AvosLocker ransomware operations.
Posted: 28 Apr, 20228 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterlinkedinRansomware: How Attackers are Breaching Corporate NetworksLatest tools, tactics, and procedures being used by the Hive, Conti, and AvosLocker ransomware operations.Targeted ransomware attacks continue to be one of the most critical cyber risks facing organizations of all sizes. The tactics used by ransomware attackers are continually evolving, but by identifying the most freq...
Symantec takes a look at the cyber security trends that shaped the year
Posted: 19 Jan, 20226 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterlinkedinThe Threat Landscape in 2021Symantec takes a look at the cyber security trends that shaped the yearFrom the evolving ransomware ecosystem to attacks against critical infrastructure, Symantec looks back over the cyber-security trends that shaped 2021.
A new whitepaper from Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, takes a look back at the some of t...
A state-backed Iranian threat actor has been using multiple CVEs – including both serious Fortinet vulnerabilities for months and a Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell weakness for weeks – looking to gain a foothold within networks before moving laterally and launching BitLocker ransomware and other nastiness.
A joint advisory published by CISA on Wednesday was meant to highlight the ongoing, malicious cyber assault, which has been tracked by the FBI, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructur...
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In brief Emails, chat logs, membership records, donor lists and other files siphoned from a far-right anti-government self-styled militia were leaked online on Monday, it appears.
Some 5GB of data belonging to the Oath Keepers ‒ at least four of whom have been indicted for and admitted their role in the January 6 storming of the US capitol – was passed to the DDoSecrets Collective and shared online. The membership list contains accounts with 160 US government and military email address...
Credentials pilfered from 87,000 unpatched Fortinet SSL-VPNs have been posted online, the company has confirmed.
Or then again, maybe the number is far greater. On Wednesday, BleepingComputer reported that it’s been in touch with a threat actor who leaked a list of nearly half a million Fortinet VPN credentials, allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
The news outlet has analyzed the file and reported that it contains VPN credentials for 498,908 users over 12,856 de...
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Some vulnerabilities remain unreported for the longest time. The 12-year-old Dell SupportAssist remote code execution (RCE) flaw – which was finally unearthed earlier this year – would be one example.
Others, however, have not only been long since reported and had patches released, but continue to pose a threat to enterprises. A joint advisory from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), published in late July, liste...
Threat actors are exploiting a Fortinet vulnerability flagged by the feds last week that delivers a new ransomware strain, dubbed Cring, that is targeting industrial enterprises across Europe.
Researchers say the attackers are exploiting an unpatched path-reversal flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-13379, in Fortinet’s FortiOS. The goal is to gain access to victims enterprise networks and ultimately deliver ransomware, according to a report by Kaspersky researchers published this week.
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in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said.
Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of "an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure." In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the flood of requests triggered a programming flaw in its infrastructure that h...
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning that advanced persistent threat (APT) nation-state actors are actively exploiting known security vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS cybersecurity operating system, affecting the company’s SSL VPN products.
According to an alert issued Friday by the FBI and CISA, cyberattackers are scanning devices on ports 4443, 8443 and 10443, looking for unpatched Fortinet security implementations. Specifically, APTs are ...
Threat actors have been chaining vulnerabilities in Windows and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to target various government agencies, critical infrastructure and election organizations, according to a warning by the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The technique, which involves exploiting several flaws over the course of a single attack to infiltrate an organization’s network, is part of the gangs’ ram...
U.S. government officials have warned that advanced persistent threat actors (APTs) are now leveraging Microsoft’s severe privilege-escalation flaw, dubbed “Zerologon,” to target elections support systems.
Days after Microsoft sounded the alarm that an Iranian nation-state actor was actively exploiting the flaw (CVE-2020-1472), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint advisory warning of further attacks.
'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised' Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real
If you're wondering which bugs in particular miscreants are exploiting to break into, or attempt to break into, US government networks, wonder no more. And then make sure you've patched them.
Uncle Sam's Dept of Homeland Security has this month identified at least six possible routes into the nation's computer systems, and the method used to gain total control over the machines once inside. Those six vulnerabilities are...
...plus CVE-2020-1472, aka ZeroLogon, in Microsoft Windows, w...
Threat actor known as APT29 has been hard at work attempting to pilfer COVID-19 vaccine research from academic and pharmaceutical research institutions in various countries around the world, including the U.S.
That’s according to a joint alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), issued Thursday.
The 14-page advisory details the recent activity of Russi...
State-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials.
The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a Cybersecurity Advisory Monday about the threats and offered mitigation suggestions, warning that multiple APT actors have weaponized three critical vulnerabilities first published in August–C...
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A two-year campaign by state-sponsored Russian entities to siphon information from US defense contractors worked, it is claimed.
Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday said Moscow's cyber-snoops have obtained "significant insight into US weapons platforms development and deployment timelines, vehicle specifications, and plans for communications infrastructure and information technology."
The Agency added that the intruders made off with sensi...
If you're wondering which bugs in particular miscreants are exploiting to break into, or attempt to break into, US government networks, wonder no more. And then make sure you've patched them.
Uncle Sam's Dept of Homeland Security has this month identified at least six possible routes into the nation's computer systems, and the method used to gain total control over the machines once inside. Those six vulnerabilities are...
...plus CVE-2020-1472, aka ZeroLogon, in Microsoft Windows, w...
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Seven nations today issued an alert, plus protection tips, about LockBit, the prolific ransomware-as-a-service gang.
The group's affiliates remains a global scourge, costing US victims alone more than $90 million from roughly 1,700 attacks since 2020, we're told.
The joint security advisory — issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and cybersecurity authorities in Australia, Canada...
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Security flaws in Log4j, Microsoft Exchange, and Atlassian's workspace collaboration software were among the bugs most frequently exploited by "malicious cyber actors" in 2021 , according to a joint advisory by the Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies.
It's worth noting that 11 of the 15 flaws on the list were disclosed in 2021, as previous years' lists often found miscreants exploiting the older vulns for which patches had been available for years.
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in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said.
Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of "an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure." In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the flood of requests triggered a programming flaw in its infrastructure that h...
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Fortinet FortiOS Path Traversal Retrieving plaintext credentials: https://localhost/remote/fgt_lang?lang=/../../../..//////////dev/cmdb/sslvpn_websession