The URL ought to have given away that issues have been critical.
https://www.barracuda.com/firm/authorized/esg-vulnerability
After which there was the very eager try to underline the agency’s dedication to securing your knowledge… they positively didn’t need you to overlook that.
We’re dedicated to securing your knowledge
The massive pleasant letters jogged my memory – reasonably aptly – of the well-known phrases “Don’t panic!” on the entrance of the “HitchHiker’s Information to the Galaxy”…
However in the event you have been feeling a way of panic, I most likely couldn’t blame you, as a result of safety agency Barracuda Networks is warning individuals of a safety vulnerability in its E-mail Safety Gateway (ESG) equipment.
However greater than that, Barracuda is taking the weird step for a community safety vendor of telling its prospects to bodily take away and decommission its {hardware}.
ACTION NOTICE: Impacted ESG home equipment have to be instantly changed no matter patch model degree. In case you have not changed your equipment after receiving discover in your UI, contact assist now ([email protected]).
Barracuda’s remediation suggestion presently is full substitute of the impacted ESG.
That’s proper. Barracuda just isn’t telling you to use a patch to the equipment that scans your incoming and outgoing electronic mail for malware. They need you to tear it out and exchange it as a substitute.
Clearly hackers have managed to take advantage of safety vulnerabilities on the Barracuda E-mail Safety Gateway equipment to such an extent that any patch merely isn’t as much as the job of kicking them out.
There are more likely to be 10,000+ Barracuda ESG home equipment in use all over the world. And it seems malicious exploitation of weak Barracuda ESG home equipment has been happening since at the least October 2022.
No marvel Barracuda is getting some authorized recommendation on the right way to talk this to its prospects.
“Don’t panic?”
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