Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

From March 19, users of Twitter won’t be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. You can still use the authentication app and security key methods. To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday revealed that LAPSUS$ extortion gang gained access to its networks. ” LAPSUS$ leader White/Lapsus Jobs looking up the Department of Defense in T-Mobile’s internal Atlas system.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

In the phishing attacks the group leverages previously compromised Microsoft 365 instances, mostly owned by small businesses, to create new domains that look like technical support accounts. Once the target has done this, the attacker can use the gained access to further compromise the account.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. The “how they did it” was sickeningly simple.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

In early 2019, we embarked on a project to improve the Duo Mobile user authentication experience. It was a daunting task, considering we haven’t changed the Duo Mobile application in over seven years. Fighting Fraud by Humanizing the Push Screen Authentication is hard!

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a security tool used by various organizations to protect user credentials, or the username and password. As a first step, organizations need to modernize their authentication, moving away from RADIUS or LDAP protocols and moving towards SAML. What can organizations do?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “ SIM swapping ,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control. I haven’t done anything.”

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DoublePulsar

JULY 25, 2023

MobileIron aka EPMM, a widely used Mobile Device Management product from Ivanti, has a crucial flaw — it has an API endpoint which requires no authentication whatsoever. In this blog we take a look at MobileIrony, aka CVE-2023–35078. Being able to remotely, for example, create administrative accounts is bad.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Google will start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are “appropriately configured.” Risher adds that users can check the status of their accounts in Google’s Security Checkup.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. So in this blog, I’ll talk about the risks and steps to mitigate them. The organisation had suffered reputational damage after one of the team followed some accounts that didn’t fit with its values. More than 4.7

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. According to an Aug.

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Identity IQ

JULY 3, 2023

How to Detect and Respond to Account Misuse IdentityIQ As digital connectivity continues to grow, safeguarding your online accounts from misuse is becoming increasingly crucial. Account misuse can result in alarming repercussions, including privacy breaches, financial losses, and identity theft.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last week, T-Mobile disclosed that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million of its past and present customers had been breached in an API attack. They also shared that the attack had been going on since November but was only caught January 5 by T-Mobile’s security team. Was the API known to T-Mobile?

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. However, while implementing MFA decreases the risk of account compromise by 99.9% , there will always be bad actors looking to break through even the most robust defenses.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2024

Cybercriminals use MFA bombing to break into accounts that are protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA). Now, according to this blog by Bran Krebs , these attacks have evolved. Armed with a reset code, the criminals could change the victim’s password and lock them out of their account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 4, 2021

So, how can we ride the digital wave for financial services and shape an innovative mobile experience that customers use in the long term? Our Digital First blog series. The blogs will cover: Ways banks can introduce stronger, yet still seamless, levels of authentication to protect the technology and prevent fraud.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a well-known and well-established protection that many organizations rely on. Several common authentication methods include the use of one-time passcodes (OTP). The attacker then calls the user, and says "This is your helpdesk, I need to confirm your account, can you please confirm your OTP?"

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2022

More and more frequently, our team at NuData is called upon to support clients in improving the security and user experience (UX) behind their mobile services, most often to complement existing desktop practices. The post 3 Burning Questions About Mobile Security, Answered appeared first on NuData Security.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. Until a fully password-free environment is deployed, accepted, and adopted by all users, less secure methods of authentication will still be relied on.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. ” reported Slashgear. . ” reported Slashgear.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the first step of your doxxing research, we collected a list of our online footprint, digging out the most important accounts that you want to protect and obsolete or forgotten accounts you no longer use. Set a long, unique password for each account. LOCKING THE FRONT DOOR .

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 12, 2023

As a technology marketing professional, I use at least 20 applications every day - SaaS/cloud applications and on-premises apps - including email, web-browser based, chat/collaboration, corporate internal apps including Intranet, and mobile apps. That is because Duo Single Sign-On (SSO) is enabled on my work account.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Posted by Sam Heft-Luthy, Product Manager, Privacy & Data Protection Office What happens to our digital accounts when we stop using them? It’s a question we should all ask ourselves, because when we are no longer keeping tabs on what’s happening with old accounts, they can become targets for cybercrime.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 7, 2023

A passkey is a phishing-resistant cryptographic keypair you register for web-based authentication. It’s the strongest authentication method available today, which is why you see passkeys moving to replace passwords altogether. See the video at the blog post. What is a passkey?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2023

The vulnerability could have allowed malicious threat actors to turn off a user's two-factor authentication (2FA) protection simply by knowing the user's phone number or email address. At that point, an attacker could potentially try to take over the victim's Facebook account by phishing for the password, since 2FA would no longer be enabled.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. Also, we need an administrator account to exploit the vulnerability.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. That’s why many tech companies are turning to passkeys as a more secure and convenient replacement.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings. Twitter API.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2023

In a recent blog post , the tech giant introduced the option to create and use a safer, more convenient alternative to passwords: Passkeys , a form of digital credential. When a Google user logs in to their account using a passkey, Google checks if the website has a corresponding public key. So, how do they work? Backup" key.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

The emails in the campaign purported to be from Microsoft, and they claimed that the recipient needed to update their account security settings or activate two-factor authentication (2FA)/multi-factor authentication (MFA) within 72 hours. This phishing scam is a reminder of the dangers of QR codes.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 19, 2021

We covered differentiating user authentication methods , Duo enrollment and self-remediation and Duo Admin Dashboard and Device Insight so far. Step 4: Setting Up an Application See the video at the blog post. Click the Verify Email link in the message to continue setting up your account.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 19, 2022

From chat rooms, to emails, to bank accounts, to medical information, proving that someone is who they say they are is a continuously evolving challenge. Let’s review what one-time passwords are, how phishing takes advantage of them, and how multi-factor authentication can help mitigate this risk. What is a One-Time Password?

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