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 information… they undoubtedly didn’t need you to overlook that.

We’re dedicated to securing your information

The large pleasant letters jogged my memory – slightly aptly – of the well-known phrases “Don’t panic!” on the entrance of the “HitchHiker’s Information to the Galaxy”…

However should you have been feeling a way of panic, I in all probability couldn’t blame you, as a result of safety agency Barracuda Networks is warning individuals of a safety vulnerability in its Electronic 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. When you’ve got not changed your equipment after receiving discover in your UI, contact help now ([email protected]).

Barracuda’s remediation advice at the moment is full alternative of the impacted ESG.

That’s proper. Barracuda 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 an alternative.

Clearly hackers have managed to take advantage of safety vulnerabilities on the Barracuda Electronic 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 prone to be 10,000+ Barracuda ESG home equipment in use around the globe. And it seems malicious exploitation of susceptible Barracuda ESG home equipment has been going down since at the very least October 2022.

No surprise Barracuda is getting some authorized recommendation on easy methods to talk this to its prospects.

“Don’t panic?”

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