Overview Recently, Cisco released an announcement stating that it has repaired two high-risk vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN vManager Software (CVE-2020-3374) and SD-WAN Solution Software (CVE-2020-3375). Cisco SD-WAN is a secure cloud-scale architecture with openness, programmability, and scalability. Through the Cisco vManage console, you can quickly establish SD-WAN coverage structures to connect data centers, branch offices, […]

UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play. UPnP is an architecture that defines peer-to-peer connectivity of PCs and intelligent devices (or instruments). Built upon Internet standards and technologies (suchas TCP/IP, HTTP, and XML), UPnP allows such devices to connect to and collaborate with each other automatically, thus making it possible for the network (especially […]

Overview On June 5, Beijing time, IBM released a security bulletin to announce the fix of a high-risk remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-4450) in WebSphere Application Server (WAS). This vulnerability was caused by deserialization of the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP). It is assigned the CVSS base score of 9.8 and therefore is a high-risk one […]

In 2019, ransomware was still a major type of threats that haunted people around the world. As an infamous botnet family, GandCrab generated more than USD 2 billion in ransom payments, simulating the rapid increase of other ransomware.

Threats Against WS-Discovery WSD is a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local area network (LAN). However, due to device vendors’ design flaw in the implementation, when a normal IP address sends a service discovery packet, devices will also respond to the request. If exposed on the Internet, these devices will be possibly […]

In this section, we analyzed threats against three major protocols. Threats Against Telnet According to data from NSFOCUS’s threat hunting system, Telnet (available on port 23), targeted by a total of 120,000 attack sources, was the IoT protocol most favored by attackers1 . Figure 7-3 shows the activity trend of Telnet attack sources from March […]

Summary Global distribution of DDoS attacks: U.S. suffered the most DDoS attacks, and Japan received the largest volume of DDoS traffic. DDoS attack trend: March and April witnessed the most frequent DDoS attacks, and May saw the peak of attack traffic. DDoS attacks and COVID-19 pandemic: DDoS attacks fluctuated noticebly with the worldwide outbreak of […]

Cyfrica August 18-19, 2020 Virtual Event

Overview Recently, TP-Link fixed a high-risk vulnerability in the C200 IP camera. A user’s hashed password can be found in the memory dump by using the discovered Heartbleed vulnerability exposed on TCP port 443. The hash was then used for a pass-the-hash attack by exploiting the login process on the API. This caused a login […]