The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

From the start, two-factor authentication, or 2FA , established itself as a simple, effective way to verify identities with more certainty. Related: A primer on IoT security risks The big hitch with 2FA, and what it evolved into – multi-factor authentication, or MFA – has always been balancing user convenience and security.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2019

The vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0708 ) resides in the “remote desktop services” component built into supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 , and Windows Server 2008. . “This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction,” Pope said. Source: Wikipedia.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. I had a chance to discuss this seminal transition with George Avetisov, co-founder and chief executive officer of HYPR , a Manhattan-based supplier of advanced authentication technologies.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who had his freeze thawed without authorization through Experian’s website, and it reminded me of how truly broken authentication and security remains in the credit bureau space. KrebsOnSecurity stepped through the same process and found similar results. and $24.99

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among the chief concerns for enterprises this month is CVE-2020-16875 , which involves a critical flaw in the email software Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. “We have seen the previously patched Exchange bug CVE-2020-0688 used in the wild, and that requires authentication. . We’ll likely see this one in the wild soon.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Passkeys are a new, passwordless authentication method that offer a convenient authentication experience for sites and apps, using just a fingerprint, face scan or other screen lock. Figure 1: authentication success rate with passkey vs password. They are designed to enhance online security for users.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) , starting in mid-2024. Multi-factor authentication is so much more secure, and with that a lot more forgiving, than passwords alone. So we wholeheartedly agree with Amazon on this.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

CVE-2024-57968 allows remote authenticated users to upload files to unintended folders, while CVE-2025-25181 is an SQL injection flaw enabling remote SQL execution (no patch available). The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It affects Microsoft Windows 10 and later, as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and subsequent versions. This weakness technically requires the attacker to be authenticated to the target’s local network, but Breen notes that a pair of phished Exchange credentials will provide that access nicely.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2025

How the attack works The JavaGhost group, active since 2019, initially focused on website defacements before shifting to financially motivated phishing attacks in 2022. Enforce multifactor authentication to add an extra security layer. Apply the principle of least privilege to restrict IAM permissions.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot , was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds’ internal network.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

the allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a serialized.NET object in an HTTP POST parameter. the allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a serialized.NET object in an HTTP POST parameter. CVE-2019-9874 (CVSS score of 9.8)

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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

MAY 31, 2019

That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful. No authentication was needed to access the digitized records.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix authentication failures related to Kerberos delegation scenarios impacting Domain Controllers (DC) running Windows Server.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues were viewable without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Once authenticated, they uploaded malicious files to the server’s startup directory, deploying Go-based backdoors like OMServerService.exe. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. These tools exfiltrate data via api.wordinfos[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

But according to an in-depth analysis shared with KrebsOnSecurity by security researcher Paul Marrapese , iLnkP2P devices offer no authentication or encryption and can be easily enumerated, allowing potential attackers to establish a direct connection to these devices while bypassing any firewall restrictions.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unlike the four zero-days involved in the mass compromise of Exchange Server systems earlier this year, CVE-2021-42321 requires the attacker to be already authenticated to the target’s system. ’ This vulnerability affects Windows 7 – 11 and Windows Server 2008 – 2019 and should be a high priority for patching.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. In 2018 and 2019, ransomware-triggered business disruptions came not in global-spanning worms, ala WannaCry and NotPetya, but in unrelenting one-off attacks. Bresman “There was a big uptick in Q3 and Q4 2019, not just in the U.S., Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 7, 2020

Another major vulnerability discovered in the operating system in 2019, called BlueKeep, has been traced back to several major hacking campaigns. . Use two-factor authentication where possible. Windows 7 users represented 98% of infected systems. Audit network configurations and identify any systems that can’t be updated.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote about Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era. This wasn't so much an original work on my behalf as it was a consolidation of advice from the likes of NIST, the NCSC and Microsoft about how we should be doing authentication today. Thanks everyone! Going live with it tomorrow.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. “However, given the number of stolen credentials readily available on underground markets, getting authenticated could be trivial. .

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” By far the most important passwords are those protecting our email inbox(es).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The flaw is present in most supported versions of Windows Server, from Server 2008 through Server 2019. A domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests in a Windows environment, and a compromised domain controller can give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a corporate network.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The software giant typically releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, but it occasionally deviates from that schedule when addressing active attacks that target newly identified and serious vulnerabilities in its products.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 13, 2021

Microsoft released updates to fix four more flaws in Exchange Server versions 2013-2019 ( CVE-2021-28480 , CVE-2021-28481 , CVE-2021-28482 , CVE-2021-28483 ). Interestingly, all four were reported by the U.S. National Security Agency , although Microsoft says it also found two of the bugs internally.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

RATE LIMITS What sanely designed authentication system would send dozens of requests for a password change in the span of a few moments, when the first requests haven’t even been acted on by the user? Apple fixed that bug nearly four months later in December 2019, thanking Bagaria in the associated security bulletin.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. After the authentication requests are processed by the directory (e.g.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

Between 2015 and 2019, Ferizi was imprisoned at a facility in Illinois that housed several other notable convicts. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication. Junaid Hussain’s Twitter profile photo.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2020

A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according to researchers from the email security firm Agari, particularly targeting senior executives at large organizations and corporations in 46 countries.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

” In another thread from June 2019, an Antichat user asks if anyone has heard from Isis recently, and Isis pops up a day later to inquire what he wants. In one section of the writeup Isis claims authorship of a specific file-dumping tool, and links to a Github directory under the username “Firsov.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the wider implications with Don Shin, A10 Networks’ senior product marketing manager. Here we are in 2019 and the same attack strategy continues to persist. As it now stands, CoAP does not require authentication to reply with a large response to a small request, Shin told me. Beyond DDoS.

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