Firewall
CISA gives feds 3 days to patch Check Point VPN bug exploited as zero-day
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments against a critical vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks by Qilin ransomware affiliates. Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-50751) to bypass authentication and establish a remote access VPN connection on targeted Mobile Access/SSL VPNs, […]
Check Point links VPN zero-day attacks to Qilin ransomware gang
Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point has released security updates to patch a critical flaw affecting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments, which was exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-50751, this vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication on targeted Mobile Access / SSL VPNs, Remote Access VPNs, or Spark firewalls […]
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month. Tracked as CVE-2026-0300, this remote code execution security flaw was found in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal (also known as the Captive Portal) and stems from a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers […]
Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks warned customers today that a critical-severity unpatched vulnerability in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal is being exploited in attacks. Also known as the Captive Portal, the User-ID Authentication Portal is a PAN-OS security feature that authenticates users whose identities cannot be automatically mapped by the firewall. Tracked as CVE-2026-0300, this zero-day bug stems from […]
Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks
Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks. A new report by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, says that the hacking campaign occurred between January 11 and February 18, 2026, and did not rely […]
Marquis blames ransomware breach on SonicWall cloud backup hack
Marquis Software Solutions, a Texas-based financial services provider, is blaming a ransomware attack that impacted its systems and affected dozens of U.S. banks and credit unions in August 2025 on a security breach reported by SonicWall a month later. The software company provides data analytics, compliance reporting, CRM tools, and digital marketing services to more […]
Hackers breach Fortinet FortiGate devices, steal firewall configs
Fortinet FortiGate devices are being targeted in automated attacks that create rogue accounts and steal firewall configuration data, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. The campaign started last week, on January 15, with the attackers exploiting an unknown vulnerability in the devices’ single sign-on (SSO) feature to create accounts with VPN access and exporting firewall configurations […]
Fortinet admins report patched FortiGate firewalls getting hacked
Fortinet customers are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. Until Fortinet provides a fully patched FortiOS release, admins are advised to temporarily disable the vulnerable FortiCloud login feature (if enabled) to secure their systems against attacks. To disable FortiCloud login, you have […]
Palo Alto Networks warns of DoS bug letting hackers disable firewalls
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-0227, this security flaw affects next-generation firewalls (running PAN-OS 10.1 or later) and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access configurations when the GlobalProtect gateway or portal is enabled. The cybersecurity company says that most […]
Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass
Over 10,000 Fortinet firewalls are still exposed online and vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a five-year-old critical two-factor authentication (2FA) bypass vulnerability. Fortinet released FortiOS versions 6.4.1, 6.2.4, and 6.0.10 in July 2020 to address this flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-12812) and advised admins who couldn’t immediately patch to turn off username-case-sensitivity to block 2FA bypass attempts […]