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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even cloud infrastructures rely on cookies to authenticate their users. Browsers allow users to maintain authentication, remember passwords and autofill forms. How Hackers Steal Cookies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Web Explorer – Fast Internet is a browsing app with over five million downloads on the Google Play store. The app also held google_api_key and google_api_id, both used for authentication purposes. It boasts of increasing browsing speed by 30% and has a user rating average of 4.4 out of five stars, across more than 58,000 reviews.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Security researchers have discovered banking Trojan apps on the Google Play Store, and say they have been downloaded by more than 300,000 Android users. As you may know, banking Trojans are kitted for stealing banking data like your username and password, and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes that you use to login to your bank account.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 16, 2022

RubyGems, the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, has become the latest platform to mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for popular package maintainers, following the footsteps of NPM and PyPI. To that end, owners of gems with over 180 million total downloads are mandated to turn on MFA effective August 15, 2022.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your Twitter account, you may be aware that this option will be reserved for paying Twitter Blue subscribers come mid-March. This post will explain how to enable app based authentication. Enabling app based 2 factor authentication 1. Click Next.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As you might expect, that company “strongly recommends that you download the latest firmware as soon as possible”. That sounds normal until you consider the totality of vulnerable products versus the ones getting updates (those models under active … Continue reading NETGEAR meltdown: CVE-2021-34991 “Pre-Authentication Buffer Overflow” ?.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 12, 2024

Narang highlighted CVE-2024-21390 as a particularly interesting vulnerability in this month’s Patch Tuesday release, which is an elevation of privilege flaw in Microsoft Authenticator , the software giant’s app for multi-factor authentication. ” CVE-2024-21334 earned a CVSS (danger) score of 9.8 (10

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. State of Multi-Factor Authentication. These changes have urged organizations to re-evaluate the state of existing authentication mechanisms, and many are looking to evolve their authentication approaches. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 05:52.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your Twitter account, you may be aware that this option will be reserved for paying Twitter Blue subscribers come mid-March. This post explains how to enable hardware key authentication instead. Enabling a hardware security key 1. Click Security key.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

ESET researchers discovered a new downloader, dubbed DePriMon, that used new “Port Monitor” methods in attacks in the wild. . The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware. The registered DLL will be loaded at system startup by the spoolsv.exe with SYSTEM privileges.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credentials stolen by info-stealers often end up for sale on cybercrime shops that peddle purloined passwords and authentication cookies (these logs also often show up in the malware scanning service VirusTotal ). Also, unless you really know what you’re doing, please don’t download and install pirated software.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

What’s Coming I’m excited to share that Cisco is announcing Duo’s passwordless authentication. Duo passwordless authentication will be available for public preview beginning summer 2021. The FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 specification, built upon the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard, laid the foundation for passwordless authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain access to their repositories and download private data from several organizations. Threat actors abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Top Five Reasons for Choosing FIDO2 Devices for Enterprise Authentication. Strong yet convenient authentication has become a paramount factor of a robust security posture for modern, digital, cloud-first enterprises. Why do you need passwordless authentication? Thu, 09/08/2022 - 06:01. Enhance identity verification with MFA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2020

also introduces Onion Authentication to allows admins of Onion services to add an extra layer of security to their website by setting a pair of keys for access control and authentication. Tor Browser users can save keys and manage them via about:preferences#privacy section of the Onion Services Authentication settings.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Here’s the story of how bogus reviews on a counterfeit Microsoft Authenticator browser extension exposed dozens of other extensions that siphoned personal and financial data. 45 malicious extensions that collectively had close to 100,000 downloads. -25 Image: chrome-stats.com. “It’s great!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2022

In April 2022, ThreatLabz discovered several newly registered domains, which were created by a threat actor to spoof the official Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. ThreatLabz discovered several newly registered domains spoofing the official Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. Key points. dat:*wallet*.*:*2fa*.*:*backup*.*:*code*.*:*password*.*:*auth*.*:*google*.*:*utc*.*:*UTC*.*:*crypt*.*:*key*.*;50;true;movies:music:mp3;

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Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become an essential security measure in the digital age. By impersonating the authenticated user, they can bypass the 2FA process altogether. Users should also be cautious when downloading applications or visiting websites, avoiding suspicious sources that may harbor malicious software.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. Then they used the access to download a set of MFA SMS message logs belonging to customers’ Duo accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 10, 2021

Thales is Named a Leader in Advanced Authentication for Identity Security. With new work habits and increased needs to address multiple authentication journeys for all types of users, large enterprises are finally realizing that one-size fit all options to authentication are coming short. Tue, 08/10/2021 - 07:21.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Experts found a new version of the Cerberus Android banking trojan that can steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA. Now the authors implemented the ability to steal 2FA code from the Google Authenticator app abusing the Accessibility Privileges. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Distribution of programming languages used in writing web applications, 2021–2023 ( download ) We analyzed data obtained through web application assessments that followed the black, gray and white box approaches. Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ericsson and Thales Partner to offer a premium 5G Secure Authentication and Subscriber Privacy solution. Ericsson today announced their Authentication Security Module solution to broaden security for user privacy, based on a physical dedicated module for central management of authentication procedures in 5G Core networks.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. That backdoored update was downloaded by over 14,000 networks worldwide. A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. Congress wants answers.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not all multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are equal. For a two-factor authentication solution, that may include hidden costs, such as upfront, capital, licensing, support, maintenance, and operating costs. Estimate and plan for how much it will cost to deploy multi-factor authentication to all of your apps and users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted user’s downloaded files. of the Slack desktop app that could be exploited to steal and manipulate a targeted user’s downloaded files. “Crafting a link like “ slack : //settings/ ?

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) x and Ivanti Policy Secure. x) and Ivanti Policy Secure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can download the #metasploit module exploits of #0days via this link => [link]. To exploit the malicious code, your Webmin installation must have Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Authentication -> Password expiry policy set to Prompt users with expired passwords to enter a new one. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 29, 2023

Enable multi-factor authentication where supported, at least for your most important services (email, banking, social, etc.) I personally use Microsoft Defender which is free, built into Windows and updates automatically via Windows Update.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

The other vulnerabilities impacting Network Attached Storage (NAS) discovered by WatchTowr code execution, buffer overflow, memory corruption, authentication bypass, and XSS issues impacting the security of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices across different deployment environments.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The vendor only said that the flaw is a pre-authentication buffer overflow vulnerability and urged customers to address the firmware of their devices as soon as possible. “NETGEAR has released fixes for a pre-authentication buffer overflow security vulnerability” reads the advisory published by the company. Click Downloads.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2024

In January we reported how hackers found a way to gain unauthorized access to Google accounts, bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) , by stealing authentication cookies with info-stealer malware. An authentication cookie is added to a web browser after a user proves who they are by logging in.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hackers have found a way to gain unauthorized access to Google accounts, bypassing any multi-factor authentication (MFA) the user may have set up. To do this they steal authentication cookies and then extend their lifespan. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The software was delivered through fraudulent updates, drive-by downloads, malware loaders (i.e. “In recent attacks, the NetSupport RAT has been observed to be downloaded onto a victim’s computer via deceptive websites and fake browser updates.” ” Upon downloading the Javascript (“Update_browser_10.6336.js

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2024

The malware, called Atomic Stealer (or AMOS for short) was delivered through “ malvertising ,” a malware delivery tactic that abuses Google ads to send everyday users to malicious websites that—though they may appear legitimate—fool people into downloading malware. But users who clicked the Mac download button instead received AMOS.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Distribution of financial phishing pages by category, 2023 ( download ) Online shopping scams Online stores were the most targeted category, comprising more than 40% (41.65%) of all financial phishing pages. To authorize passkey authentication , the user has to unlock the device the passkey was issued for.

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