Sophos fixes critical firewall bug exploited in attacks

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Sophos fixes critical firewall bug exploited in attacks against South Asian organisations
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Sophos fixes critical firewall bug exploited in attacks against South Asian organisations

Companies in Asia attacked as Sophos recommends users of older versions of its firewall to update their software

The British security software vendor Sophos says it has addressed a code injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, which existed in the company's firewall products and allowed threat actors to achi...

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