Cisco Begins Patching Equation Group ASA Zero Day

Cisco today began the process of patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software exposed in the ShadowBrokers data dump. Users on affected versions of ASA, 7.2, and 8.0 through 8.7, are urged to migrate soon to 9.1.79 or later. Newer versions that are also...

Leaked ShadowBrokers Attack Upgraded to Target Current Versions of Cisco ASA

Exploits against enterprise-grade Cisco firewalls dumped by the ShadowBrokers have quickly—and apparently without a lot of strenuous effort—been upgraded to attack more current versions of ASA. Researchers at Silent Signal in Hungary yesterday tweeted they had ported the EXTRABACON attack to ASA...

Juniper Acknowledges Equation Group Targeted ScreenOS

Juniper Networks on Friday acknowledged that exploits implants contained in the ShadowBrokers data dump do indeed target its products. “As part of our analysis of these files, we identified an attack against NetScreen devices running ScreenOS,” said Derrick Scholl, director of security incident...

Cisco Acknowledges ASA Zero Day Exposed by ShadowBrokers

Cisco has quickly provided a workaround for one of two vulnerabilities that was disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump and issued an advisory on the other, which was patched in 2011, in order to raise awareness among its customers. The networking giant today released advisories saying that it...

ShadowBrokers' Leak Has 'Strong Connection' to Equation Group

A high-stakes game of attribution started by a group claiming to have a cache of exploits belonging to the Equation Group took a somewhat definitive turn Tuesday afternoon. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab yesterday confirmed a connection between the tools currently up for auction by the ShadowBroker...