Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2023

This week: A Chinese-based hacking group has used stolen authentication tokens to breach government email accounts. The post The Week in Security: Chinese hackers breach government email, AI models easily poisoned appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

What is Data Access Governance? 80% of digital organizations will fail because they don’t take a modern approach to data governance. Data access governance is a subset of data governance. “Data access governance” is often associated with strict rules and regulations to keep sensitive data under lock and key.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

While verification and authentication are terms that are often used interchangeably, they are in fact two separate operations. Digital verification and authentication play a critical role in preventing fraud and cyberattacks. Government organizations, on the other hand, will employ much more extensive verification methods.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2023

Microsoft has recently revealed the details of a China-based hacking campaign that targeted email accounts at two dozen organizations, including multiple U.S. government agencies. The company's analysis revealed that the cybercriminals gained unauthorized access to email accounts starting from around mid-May.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2023

Passkeys can use a range of passwordless authentication methods, from fingerprint, face and iris recognition to screen lock pins, smart cards, USB devices and more. They can be implemented as part of an account, application, cloud service, access management system, or password manager. 600/year minimum Premium: $4.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors. From these instances the group reaches out through Teams messages and persuades targets to approve multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts initiated by the attacker.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. They also can use stolen personal information for identity theft, opening fraudulent accounts. Cyberattacks designed to steal identity are on the rise.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 28, 2024

The post Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones appeared first on Security Boulevard. Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. “The threat actors behind the campaign are targeting Facebook business accounts by using Google ads and fake Facebook profiles that promote things like games, adult content, and cracked software, etc.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

“Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsoft’s cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State departments, including that of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — whose agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced as a malicious attempt to suppress its companies.”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2023

The affected Norwegian ministries used it to manage mobile devices used by government employees and grant remote access to government systems and applications. Ivanti EPMM is a mobile management software engine that enables IT to set policies for mobile devices, applications, and content. releases 11.10, 11.9

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 6, 2021

On Twitter, verified accounts are those that have a blue badge with a checkmark. These accounts often represent well-known influencers, celebrities, politicians, journalists, activists, as well as government and commercial entities. To receive the blue badge, your account […].

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Cisco Security

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to use the PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) in addition to bypassing Duo 2FA to compromise an unpatched Windows machine and gain administrative privileges. This activity was documented as early as May, 2021.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the result of a security audit: More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, In the first 90 minutes of testing, auditors cracked the hashes for 16 percent of the department’s user accounts. and ChangeItN0w!—were

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The two techniques reported in the NSA’s advisory are related to the possibility to forge Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens used single sign-on (SSO) authentication processes. Using the private keys, the actors then forge trusted authentication tokens to access cloud resources.” ” continues the alert.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This change reflects a movement we’re seeing in governments worldwide to be more assertive in improving government agency security. Not surprisingly, these changes primarily focus on government agencies and the vendors who supply them. Service providers are already encouraged to comply with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Airbus has apparently confirmed the cybercriminal’s account to the threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock , which determined that the Airbus credentials were stolen after a Turkish airline employee infected their computer with a prevalent and powerful info-stealing trojan called RedLine. government inboxes. Microsoft Corp.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

Experts discovered how to take over Microsoft Teams accounts by just sending recipients a regular GIF, it works for both desktop and web Teams versions. The flaw ties the way Microsoft Teams handles authentication to image resources. s and could take over an account. ” reads the analysis published by CyberArk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Security researcher named Volodymyr Diachenko aka Bob is claiming to have access to over 280m bank account records of Indian Citizens and warned that the data exposure could lead to an information disaster, if the Indian government led by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi Ji doesn’t take it on a serious note.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. Congress wants answers. Master signing keys are not supposed to be left around, waiting to be stolen.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Enrolling users to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential security step for any organization. Enrollment basics Enrollment is the process by which users are added to a Duo account and enabled to use MFA. Automatic enrollment might seem easier for users, but they still must follow up to add their authentication devices.

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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. MFA has been recommended, or required, by governments and has grown in popularity as a measure to quickly add a layer of security, especially if credentials are compromised as part of a phishing attack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal information on their targets. The DEA declined to comment on the validity of the claims, issuing only a brief statement in response.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government (Part 1 of 2) sparsh Tue, 11/28/2023 - 05:20 Bruce Schneier recently blogged : A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. But “negligent security practices” are not a new concern for the US Government.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a US government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to exploit certain authentication workflows in combination with PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) to gain administrative access to Windows domain controllers.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

An investigation by Microsoft has finally revealed how China-based hackers circumvented the protections of a "highly isolated and restricted production environment" in May 2023 to unlock sensitive email accounts belonging to US government agencies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. These hacking waves contribute to the harvesting of account credentials and unauthorized access to loosely-configured servers; and these ill-gotten assets can, in turn, be utilized to execute different stages of higher-level hacks, such as account takeovers and ransomware campaigns.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

An identity had been verified, typically via Government issued identity documents like a passport. Controversially, Blue accounts gained the same visual checkmark as verified accounts despite not using the same identity verification process. This resulted in an early wave of imitation accounts causing confusion.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Hackers that the United States linked to Russian Intelligence used a gimmicked update to the SolarWinds IT management software and other vectors to take over a variety of government agencies and private organizations. But the same campaign relied on takeovers of AD FS servers to overtake Microsoft 365 accounts for espionage purposes.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2023

Researchers from Wiz have discovered a way to allow for search engine manipulation and account takeover. Azure Active Directory is a single sign-on and multi-factor authentication service used by organisations around the world. Bypassing authentication resulted in a functional admin panel for the search engine.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

based supplier of identity access management (IAM) systems, which recently announced a partnership with Omada, a Copenhagen-based provider of identity governance administration (IGA) solutions. The IAM vendors took single sign-on to the next level, adding multi-factor authentication and other functionalities.

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The Hacker News

MAY 11, 2022

Key among the recommendations include identifying and disabling accounts that are no longer in use, enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) on MSP accounts that access customer Multiple cybersecurity authorities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. co saying he could be hired to perform fake EDRs on targets at will, provided the account was recently active.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

The US revealed that threat actors bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) authentication protocols to compromise cloud service accounts. Government experts confirmed that the threat actors initially attempted brute force logins on some accounts without success. Pierluigi Paganini.

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