Week in review: Criminals leveraging Office 365, endpoint attack anatomy, medical devices cybersec

From helpnetsecurity.com

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles:

Critical flaw in SonicWall’s firewalls patched, update quickly! (CVE-2020-5135)
SonicWall patched 11 vulnerabilities affecting its Network Security Appliance (NSA). Among those is CVE-2020-5135, a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the appliances’ VPN Portal that could be exploited to cause denial of service and possibly remote code execution.

The anatomy of an endpoint attack
A lot has changed across the cybersecurity threat landscape in the last decade, but one thing has remained the same: the endpoint is under siege. What has changed is how attackers compromise endpoints. Threat actors have learned to be more patient after gaining an initial foothold within a system (and essentially scope out their victim).

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