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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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A study released by the Government Accountability Office earlier this year showed that the State Department has deployed two-factor authentication to only 11% of the devices used by staff. Two-factor authentication is a legal requirement and also considered a bare minimum protocol for cybersecurity protection.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

Typically, the attacker collects authentic media samples of their target, including still images, videos, and audio clips, to train the deep learning model. The more training data used, the more authentic the deepfake appears.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

After verifying my email address, I was asked to pick a strong password and select a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). The most secure MFA option offered (a one-time code generated by an app like Google Authenticator or Authy) was already pre-selected, so I chose that.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The database required no authentication. In addition, the database included the Apple iCloud username and authentication token of mobile devices running mSpy, and what appear to be references to iCloud backup files. In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that mSpy had been hacked and its customer data posted to the Dark Web.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2022

“Thankfully, this is a post-authentication vulnerability, meaning attackers need credentials to exploit it,” Wiseman said. “Luckily, like this month’s Exchange vulnerabilities, this, too, requires authentication.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. The first signs of the attack came on the morning of Feb. Just attack and destroy.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers observed both the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets using an exploit for a post-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web Gateways 5.0.2.8. which is a product that became end-of-life (EOL) in 2015 and end-of-support-life (EOSL) in 2019.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In a statement published today, the IRS said it was transitioning away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts. “During the transition, the IRS will quickly develop and bring online an additional authentication process that does not involve facial recognition. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2020

HPE fixed a remote authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) data center storage management solution. The CVE-2020-7197 flaw is a remote authentication bypass vulnerability that affects HPE 3PAR StoreServ Management and Core Software Media prior to 3.7.0.0. ” reads the advisory. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

It could be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installs. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” The vulnerability could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to “manipulate certain agent client components.”. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

VMware has addressed serious vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter, including remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws. “vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter has an improper trust store configuration leading to authentication bypass. ” continues the advisory. x on Windows.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

An attacker could bypass Office macro policies by tricking an authenticated user into downloading and opening a specially crafted file from a website. This file could bypass Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, potentially compromising security features like SmartScreen Application Reputation and Windows Attachment Services security prompts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Cisco addresses a critical remote code execution (RCE), authentication bypass, and static default credential flaws that could lead to full router takeover. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

One of the most severe vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-2018 , is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature. This vulnerability does not impact Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. The issue received a CVSSv3.1

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The vulnerability is a post-authentication command injection issue and impacts Nighthawk (R7800) routers running firmware prior to version 1.0.2.60. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

“An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. “The security update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way that LSASS handles specially crafted authentication requests.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

in 2015, it became part of a suite of cloud-based collaboration tools. Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/ phscripts /bin/ tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

” The US agency also added the CVE-2015-2051 remote code execution flaw impacting D-Link DIR-645 routers. “An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.An attacker must have the ability to execute code on a victim system to exploit this vulnerability.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

A flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings client for Windows could allow local authenticated attackers to gain access to sensitive information. A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings client for Windows, tracked as CVE-2020-3347 , could be exploited by local authenticated attackers to gain access to sensitive information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

The expert discovered that the issue could allow an attacker to force the software to relay an NTLM authentication request to the attacker’s system. This means that the SMB authentication process will leak the system’s username, and NTLMv2 hashed version of the password to the attackers. “An Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

2 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.” A remote attacker could exploit the CVE-2019-2729 flaw without authentication. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. “An Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Vendors supporting Samba 4.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The list of addressed vulnerabilities includes denial-of-service (DoS), CSRF, FMC authentication bypass, and MitM issues. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” Most of the vulnerability addressed by the IT giant can be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The CVE-2020-3556 flaw resided in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of Cisco AnyConnect Client, it can be exploited by authenticated and local attackers to execute malicious scripts via a targeted user. “The vulnerability is due to a lack of authentication to the IPC listener. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. published a detailed analysis of the flaw.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Use Network Level Authentication (NLA). If possible, enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Kaspersky recommends organizations to adopt the following security measures: At the very least, use strong passwords. Use a reliable security solution.

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