Sunday, October 18, 2026

Firewall

Microsoft Windows Defender Firewall Vulnerabilities Allow Privilege Escalation

Microsoft has released security advisories for four newly discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows Defender Firewall Service that could enable attackers to elevate privileges on...

Web Application Firewall Bypassed via JS Injection with Parameter Pollution

In a recent autonomous penetration test, a novel cross-site scripting (XSS) bypass that sidesteps even highly restrictive Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Security researchers uncovered...

Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and Secure Firewall Flaws Allow Remote DoS Attacks

Cisco Systems has issued a high-priority security advisory addressing multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) feature across its networking...

Researchers Detail Script-Masking Tactics That Bypass Defenses

Security researchers and cybersecurity professionals are highlighting the growing sophistication of payload obfuscation techniques that allow malicious actors to bypass traditional defense mechanisms. As...

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Bypassing Firewalls with User-Agent Spoofing

Cloudflare has publicly accused Perplexity AI of employing deceptive crawling practices that violate established web crawling protocols and deliberately circumvent website protection mechanisms. The...

SonicWall Alerts on Surge of Attacks Against Gen 7 Firewalls Over Past 72 Hours

SonicWall has issued an urgent security advisory following a significant escalation in cyberattacks targeting Generation 7 firewalls with enabled SSLVPN functionality over the past...

Akira Ransomware Exploits 0-Day Vulnerability in SonicWall Firewall Devices

Cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf has identified a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting SonicWall firewall devices in late July 2025, with evidence pointing to...

WAFFLED: New Technique Targets Web Application Firewall Weaknesses

Cybersecurity researchers at Northeastern University and Dartmouth College have unveiled a groundbreaking attack technique that exploits fundamental parsing discrepancies in Web Application Firewalls (WAFs),...