VPN

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2021
Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. The latest banned services are Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, PrivateTunnel. The total number of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2021
NSA, CISA release guidance on hardening remote access via VPN solutions

The U.S. CISA and the NSA agencies have published guidance for securely using virtual private network (VPN) solutions. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released guidance for increasing the security of virtual private network (VPN) solutions. Multiple attacks against private organizations and government entities, especially during […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2021
Ivanti fixed a critical code execution issue in Pulse Connect Secure VPN

Security firm Ivanti addressed a critical vulnerability in its Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliances that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. IT firm Ivanti released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in its Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliances. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-22937 is a high-severity remote code execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2021
SonicWall finally fixed a flaw resulting from a partially patched 2020 zero-day

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20019, in SonicWall VPN appliances was only partially patched last year and could allow a remote attacker to steal sensitive data. In October last year, experts reported a critical stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5135, in SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) appliances. At the time of the discovery, security experts from the Tripwire VERT […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2021
Ivanti fixes high severity flaw in Pulse Connect Secure VPN

A flaw in Pulse Connect Secure VPN could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Ivanti addressed a high severity Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Secure VPN appliances that could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-22908, has received a CVSS […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2021
Expired certificate caused a Pulse Secure VPN global scale outage

Pulse Secure VPN users were not able to login due to the expiration of a code signing certificate used to digitally sign and verify software components. Pulse Secure VPN users were not able to login after a code signing certificate used to digitally sign and verify software components has expired. Multiple users have reported on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2020
Bulletproof VPN services took down in a global police operation

A joint operation conducted by law European enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure of three bulletproof VPN services. A joint operation conducted by law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure used by three VPN bulletproof services. VPN bulletproof services are […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2020
The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online, with many countries impacted, including Portugal. A compilation of one-line exploit tracked as CVE-2018-13379 and that could be used to steal VPN credentials from nearly 50.000 Fortinet VPN devices has posted online. This vulnerability resides in an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2020
Almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances online are vulnerable to CVE-2020-5135

The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2020
APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint security alert to warn of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks. […]