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Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA): Never Trust, Always Verify

June 20, 2022 | Jie Ji

After the prior two posts (SASE Popular Science Series – Understanding SD-WAN and SASE: The Relationship Between SD-WAN and SASE), you may already have a basic understanding of SD-WAN, which is used for network connections among users, assets and NSFOCUS Cloud in SASE. What security capabilities does NSFOCUS offer then? In the next few sessions, […]

Atlassian Confluence Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134) Notification

June 17, 2022 | Jie Ji

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Atlassian officially released a security bulletin for Confluence Server and Data Center OGNL injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134). Remote attackers can construct OGNL expressions for injection without authentication to execute arbitrary code on Confluence Server or Data Center, with a CVSS score of 10. At present, the details of the vulnerability […]

How to Protect MEC from DDoS Attacks in 5G Networks

June 8, 2022 | Jie Ji

NSFOCUS at RSAC 2022 Why MEC is so important to the 5G Network? MEC (Multiple-access Edge Computing) is an important part of the 5G architecture, which is a type of distributed computing used to reduce bandwidth and improve response time, allowing operators to deploy their applications from centralized data centers to the edge of the […]

NSFOCUS Empowers ISP/MSP with Zero Trust and Security Access Service Edge (SASE) Solution

June 7, 2022 | Jie Ji

Transform One of the most important industry events – RSA Conference 2022 just had its opening both offline and online this year on June 6th, 2022. RSAC 2022 has selected the word “Transform” as the theme this year. It says “The security needs of organizations are expanding, and companies of all sizes across the globe […]

Come and Meet NSFOCUS Next Week at RSA Conference 2022

June 3, 2022 | Jie Ji

RSA Conference 2022 will kick off in San Francisco on June 6, 2022. The theme of RSA Conference 2022 is Transform[i], which is a further extension of last year’s theme Resilience. Resilience can be the emergency and recovery capabilities of small and medium organizations facing cyber threats, and the survival and adaption capabilities of large […]

Millions of Devices May Be Affected, and Yeskit Botnet Family Spreads on a Massive Scale by Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability

June 2, 2022 | Jie Ji

Background   On May 4, 2022, F5 issued a security bulletin regarding a remote code execution vulnerability in iControlREST component of BIG-IP products. The CVE number of the vulnerability is CVE-2022-1388. The vulnerability can bypass authentication and remotely execute arbitrary code with a vulnerability score of CVSS up to 9.8. Since the bulletin, attackers have […]

Research and Analysis of Middlebox-based TCP Reflective Amplification Attacks

May 31, 2022 | Jie Ji

Abstract In August 2021, Kevin Bock and his team from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder proposed a new TCP reflective amplification attack method initiated by the middlebox at the USENIX conference. (See more details at https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/usenix-weaponizing-ddos.pdf) In mid-April this year, NSFOCUS spotted that one of its Cloud DDoS Protection Service […]

NSFOCUS Managed Security Service Case: Response to a Hybrid SYN/ACK Flood Incident

May 23, 2022 | Jie Ji

Incident discovered In early 2021, a private cloud service provider in the United States was hit by a massive hybrid SYN Flood attack. As the service provider is a customer of NSFOCUS Cloud DDoS Protection Service and subscribed with Managed Security Service (MSS), the malicious traffic is noticed instantly by NSFOCUS Managed Security Service team, […]

Multiple OpenSSL Security Vulnerabilities Alerts

May 18, 2022 | Jie Ji

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that OpenSSL issued a security notice, which fixed multiple security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL products. OpenSSL is an open source software library package. Applications can use this package to communicate securely, avoid eavesdropping, and confirm the identity of the other end of the connection. It is widely used on web servers […]

NSFOCUS Managed Security Service Case: Protection Policy Tuning for Further Improved Result in a 170Gbps DDoS Incident

May 13, 2022 | Jie Ji

Incident Response On mid-2021, a multinational telecom service provider was attacked by a sudden large-scale DDoS attack with the peak value of 170Gbps with maximum 5Gbps of malicious traffic leakage, with equivalent Mitigation Effect (mitigated malicious traffic/total ingress traffic) stays at least 97%. The service provider did not encounter service interruption during the whole incident. […]