Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigation

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 confirmed that this mitigation is ineffectual. “Device teleme… Continue reading Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigation

CVE-2024-3400 exploited: Unit 42, Volexity share more details about the attacks

Earlier today, Palo Alto Networks revealed that a critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) in the company’s firewalls has been exploited in limited attacks and has urged customers with vulnerable devices to quickly implement mitig… Continue reading CVE-2024-3400 exploited: Unit 42, Volexity share more details about the attacks

Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming! (CVE-2024-3400)

Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) 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… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming! (CVE-2024-3400)

How malicious email campaigns continue to slip through the cracks

In this Help Net Security video, Josh Bartolomie, VP of Global Threat Services at Cofense, discusses how email will remain a target as long as it remains the predominant form of communication within a business. Cofense researchers have found that malic… Continue reading How malicious email campaigns continue to slip through the cracks

Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds

2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (libvpx, ImagelO) and drivers (Mali GPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU), as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer mo… Continue reading Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds