Faster, safer, stronger: Sophos Firewall v22 security enhancements
Hardened kernel, remote integrity monitoring, an enhanced anti-malware engine, and more.
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Bys sA Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of mounting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-41710 (CVSS score: 6.8), a case of command injection in the boot process that could…
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