U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls

The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao), who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and conspiracy to commit…

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Cisco Warns of regreSSHion RCE Impacting Multiple Products

Cisco has issued a security advisory regarding a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, dubbed “regreSSHion,” that affects multiple products. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-6387, was disclosed by the Qualys Threat Research Unit on July 1, 2024. It impacts the OpenSSH server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems and has the potential to allow unauthenticated attackers…

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Samsung Users in India was Issued Warning by CERT of Possible Cyberthreat

Security alert,  was issued for Samsung users on December 13, stating concern as high-risk and emphasised the urgency of updating the operating system or firmware in the existing Samsung mobile phones. Samsung Electronics has been notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual form the…

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