Barracuda Urges Immediate Replacement of Hacked ESG Appliances

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  1. stapp

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    https://thehackernews.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-immediate-replacement.html
     
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    "Chinese spies breached hundreds of public, private networks, security firm [Mandiant] says...

    Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday.

    'This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted by a China-nexus threat actor since the mass exploitation of Microsoft Exchange in early 2021,' Charles Carmakal, Mandiant’s chief technical officer, said in a emailed statement. That hack compromised tens of thousands of computers globally...

    In a blog post Thursday, Google-owned Mandiant expressed 'high confidence” that the group exploiting a software vulnerability in Barracuda Networks’ Email Security Gateway was engaged in “espionage activity in support of the People’s Republic of China.' It said the activivity began as early as October..."

    https://apnews.com/article/barracud...hina-hackers-a52d1595c9108d2c58df11e38756600d
     
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  4. Rasheed187

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    Holy crap, I have never heard of such a dumb hack before, Barracuda should be ashamed! So this these devices are meant to keep malware of the system, turns out they are actually devices that spy on you, how ironic.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-attacks-linked-to-suspected-chinese-hackers/
     
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