Sophos

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2024
Sophos fixed critical vulnerabilities in its Firewall product

Sophos fixed three Sophos Firewall flaws that could lead to SQL injection, privileged SSH access to devices, and remote code execution. Sophos has addressed three vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-12727, CVE-2024-12728, and CVE-2024-12729, in its Sophos Firewall solution. The vulnerabilities impact Sophos Firewall v21.0 GA (21.0.0) and older versions, below are the description for these […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2024
Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

The U.S. has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. The U.S. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., faces charges for developing and testing a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2023
Sophos patches three issues in the Sophos Web Security appliance, one of them rated as critical

Sophos addressed three vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance, including a critical flaw that can lead to code execution. Cybersecurity vendor Sophos addressed three vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-1671 (CVSS score of 9.8), that can lead to code execution. The CVE-2023-1671 flaw is a pre-auth command injection issue that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2022
Sophos fixed a critical flaw in its Sophos Firewall version 19.5

Sophos addressed several vulnerabilities affecting its Sophos Firewall version 19.5, including arbitrary code execution issues. Sophos has released security patches to address seven vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall version 19.5, including some arbitrary code execution bugs. The most severe issue addressed by the security vendor is a critical code injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-3236. “A code […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
Sophos warns of a new actively exploited flaw in Firewall product

Sophos warns that a critical code injection security vulnerability in its Firewall product is actively exploited in the wild. Sophos warns of a critical code injection security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, affecting its Firewall product which is being exploited in the wild. The CVE-2022-3236 flaw resides in the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2022
Threat actors actively exploit recently fixed Sophos firewall bug

Cybersecurity firm Sophos warned that the recently addressed CVE-2022-1040 flaw in Sophos Firewall is actively exploited in attacks. Sophos has recently fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, that resides in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall. The CVE-2022-1040 flaw received a CVSS score of 9.8 and impacts Sophos Firewall versions 18.5 MR3 (18.5.3) and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2020
Sophos notifies data leak after a misconfiguration

The cyber-security firm Sophos is notifying customers via email about a security breach that took place earlier this week. ZDNet reported that the cyber-security firm Sophos is notifying customers via email about a security breach, the company became aware ot the incident on November 24. “On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2020
Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day issue in Sophos firewall

Cybersecurity firm Sophos releases an emergency patch to address an SQL injection flaw in its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released an emergency patch to address an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability affecting its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Sophos was informed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019
After latest Microsoft Windows updates some PCs running Sophos AV not boot

Sophos is warning users of potential problems with the recent Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is saying to roll back it if they want the PC to boot. The security firm has informed its customers of potential problems with the latest Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is asking them to uninstall the patch if they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2014
Cybercrime-as-a-Service, a winning model of sale

Security Experts at Sophos explained the efficiency of the business model known as Cybercrime-as-a-Service in the specific case of Vawtrak botnet. The term Cybercrime-as-a-Service refers to the practice in the cybercriminal ecosystem to provide product and services for use by other criminals. In September 2014, a report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the 2014 […]