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Almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances online are vulnerable to CVE-2020-5135

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by Tripwire. Security experts from Tenable have published a post detailing the flaw, they also shared Shodan dorks for searching SonicWall VPNs. At the time of this post, the first search query provides 448,400 results, the second one 24,149, most of the vulnerable devices are in the United States.

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Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt from Sophos. When the visitor clicks on the link provided by the search engine, they are redirected to landing pages that answer their exact questions, using the same wording as the search query. ” continues the analysis.

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Experts warn of a new malvertising campaign spreading the ChromeLoader

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by the experts. The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. ” continues the analysis.

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ChromeLoader campaign uses VHD files disguised as cracked games and pirated software

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by ASEC. The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijack user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The analysis of the VHD files revealed multiple hidden files except for the Install.lnk file.

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Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

Security Affairs

. “Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.”

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SonicWall finally fixed a flaw resulting from a partially patched 2020 zero-day

Security Affairs

reads the analysis published by Tripwire. Security experts from Tenable published a post detailing the flaw, they also shared Shodan dorks for searching SonicWall VPNs. “An unskilled attacker can use this flaw to cause a persistent denial of service condition.

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As We Head Toward A More Conversational Interface, Can AdWords Keep Up?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Gian Fulgoni, Executive Chair of Comscore, has an interesting analysis of what's happening in paid search lately. It's germane to my earlier posts about paid search share sliding and Google's decision to allow trademark ad bidding. As Gian said, fascinating.