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New Duo E-Book, Attack Vectors Decoded: Securing Organizations Against Identity-Based Threats

Duo's Security Blog

Recently, attackers have targeted multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even if an attacker has access to a username and password, they still need access to the second authentication factor to break into the organization. This becomes a constant cycle of organizations introducing new protections and attackers finding ways to exploit them.

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Intro to Phishing: How Dangerous Is Phishing in 2023?

Duo's Security Blog

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data. What is phishing?

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Chinese fraudsters: evading detection and monetizing stolen credit card information

CyberSecurity Insiders

Additionally, NFTs and eBooks are also suitable for money laundering. They may use methods such as pretending to be the rightful owner (social engineering) and calling the card company's call center to confirm the limit, disabling the one-time password authentication required for card use, or using other social engineering tactics.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations. For example, attackers may research their victims on social media or other online sources to gather personal information that can be used to make their phishing emails more believable.

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News Alert: Survey shows vast majority of IT pros consider ‘passwordless’ access a top priority

The Last Watchdog

. – June 21, 2023 – Axiad , a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today announced the results of its Passwordless Authentication survey fielded by Enterprise Research Group (ERG), a full-service market research company. and Canada were surveyed.

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Abusing Entra ID Misconfigurations to Bypass MFA

NetSpi Technical

To understand the vulnerability, there are a few things to understand about the Entra ID authentication flow. Within any Entra ID environment, there are numerous cloud applications that are leveraged when a user authenticates. This odd load-time behavior is what alerted me to the potential for an MFA bypass.

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Retail and Hospitality Trending Holiday Cyber Threats

Duo's Security Blog

And in our ebook, Retail Cybersecurity: The Journey to Zero Trust , we share ways that Duo can help retailers improve their security posture. Add a passwordless authentication factor like a biometric and block attempts at access. Get started by downloading our ebook, Retail Cybersecurity: The Journey to Zero Trust , today.

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