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Tue, August 23, 2022

CISA Alerts: Palo Alto PAN-OS Vulnerability Under Attack

🔔 CISA has warned that firewalls running Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS are under active attack and require immediate patching. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-0028, can be abused without authentication to perform reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service attacks using PA-Series, VM-Series and CN-Series devices. Palo Alto has released patches for multiple PAN-OS branches and CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, urging federal agencies to remediate by September 9. Administrators should review URL filtering profiles with blocked categories on externally facing interfaces and apply vendor fixes promptly.

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Mon, August 22, 2022

Fake Reservation Links Target Travel and Hospitality Industry

✈️ A longtime threat group tracked as TA558 has resumed phishing campaigns that spoof hotel or reservation notices to lure travelers into downloading malware. Campaigns increasingly deliver ISO and RAR container files via URLs that, when decompressed, execute batch scripts and PowerShell helpers to fetch RATs such as AsyncRAT. TA558 has shifted from macro-laden Office documents to containerized attachments after Microsoft limited macros. Travel organizations and customers should be wary of unexpected reservation emails and avoid opening unknown archives.

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