SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. Mandiant Tuesday posted a blog detailing a new attack strategy against Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images).

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. ” On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2022

In this three part blog series we will explore attack paths that emerge out of Managed Identity assignments in three Azure services: Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, and Function Apps. Instead of storing and sending credentials, Azure knows that your script is allowed to authenticate as a specific Service Principal.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adoption of two-factor authentication has substantially increased since we began conducting this research in 2017. SMS Text Message Remains the Most Used Authentication Method SMS (85%) continues to be the most common second factor that respondents with 2FA experience have used, slightly up from in 2019 (72%).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

The start of 2021 brings forth a cyber security crossroads. Additional authentication is also needed in case potential complications are indicated. Ransomware and fileless malware breaches will rapidly continue to destabilize businesses in 2021. Related: Breaches spike during pandemic. All too many vectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Below is the list of flaws exploited by the ransomware gang’s affiliate: CVE-2021-27876 : The communication between a client and an Agent requires successful authentication, which is typically completed over a secure TLS communication. CVE-2021-27877 : An issue was discovered in Veritas Backup Exec before 21.2.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

On July 16, 2020 — the day after some of Twitter’s most recognizable and popular users had their accounts hacked and used to tweet out a bitcoin scam — KrebsOnSecurity observed that several social media accounts tied to O’Connor appeared to have inside knowledge of the intrusion. I haven’t done anything.”

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

It is set in 2021, after all. I wager, there was no better way to prepare for my predictions blog. In this fictional 2021, the act of carrying around a corporate laptop is long past. People working from home accounts for more than 66% of economic activity, and 42 percent of the labor force, in the U.S. I admit it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds Veritas Backup Exec flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

She said CopperStealer, which Proofpoint fully describes in a blog post , exhibits many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Users should turn on two-factor authentication for their service providers.”.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 7, 2021

2SV adds an extra layer when logging into your account and the additional step happens after you’ve entered your password. It’s simple, and it dramatically decreases the chance of someone else accessing an account. We want to help keep your account safe & 2SV is an important step! Enable on your Google Account ?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

On July 3, the REvil ransomware affiliate program began using a zero-day security hole ( CVE-2021-30116 ) to deploy ransomware to hundreds of IT management companies running Kaseya’s remote management software — known as the Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA). “This was not.”

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2021. Adobe asked users to unin stall the software before it blocked all Flash content from 12 January 2021. . The Top Cybersecurity Certifications in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Customers can access a Salesforce Community website in two ways: Authenticated access (requiring login), and guest user access (no login required). This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Mirai -based Moobot botnet was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers in February 2021, in November 2021, it started exploiting a critical command injection flaw ( CVE-2021-36260 ) in the webserver of several Hikvision products. Since September 2022, Moobot botnet was spotted targeting vulnerable D-Link routers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2023

Once Outlook receives this message it initiates a NTLM authentication with this SMB share server. The attacker can then use this connection's NTLM negotiation message and relay this authentication against other systems that support NTLM authentication. This can be used to protect high value domain admin accounts.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 SANS Security Awareness Report offers an interesting look back over the past year. Report author Lance Spitzner of SANS blogged : “The more that managing human risk becomes a dedicated, prioritised effort, the more effective organizations will become at managing their human risk.” billion in 2019. Sign up here.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2022

Detecting apps with CVE-2021–44228. In this blog, we will focus on how you can easily detect vulnerable versions of log4j in your Java applications using ShiftLeft CORE. Once you create your account and do an upgrade to the premium trial, please follow the steps here to analyze your Java applications. It’s just three steps?—?download

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions allow for an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources.” The application then validates the signature on the cookie to re-authenticate the user prior to processing the request. ” reads the advisory.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. That’s why many tech companies are turning to passkeys as a more secure and convenient replacement.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In that blog, I discussed high availability (HA) for the SMS Provider which is designed to support multiple configuration manager console sessions or to support managing SCCM if the SMS provider goes offline. Figure 2: Site Installation Account Next, we’ll shift focus to the site database role.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. Then the attackers attempt to extract credentials to an Active Directory account used by the compromised device and use them for lateral movement by authenticating to other devices.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

Oh, and enrolling each of our devices individually with our accounts took a little bit of getting used to. It’s 2021 and you’re an administrator or security engineer trying to figure out what this whole “passwordless” thing is about. See the video at the blog post. Good thing we stopped doing that pretty early on.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. The assembly default “LegalCopyright” field shows “2020” as a date, and the most recent Owowa sample we could find was detected in April 2021 in our telemetry. It is designed to decode (XOR) and execute an embedded shellcode.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The joint advisory provides detailed info on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with APT28’s attacks conducted in 2021 that exploited the flaw in Cisco routers. The Russia-linked APT28 conducted the attacks in 2021 and targeted a small number of entities in Europe, U.S. ” reads the joint advisory. through 12.4

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In August, 2021 the Wiz Research Team disclosed ChaosDB – a severe vulnerability in the popular Azure Cosmos DB database solution that allowed for complete, unrestricted access to the accounts and databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit record highs in 2021, and isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. This due diligence process should account for: •Deal information exposure. The transition process needs to account for: •Data privacy, ownership, and governance. Related: Stolen data used to target mobile services.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Frequent Ransomware Target QNAP Discloses 3 Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Improper authentication, injection vulnerability, SQL injection (SQLi). The other two vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-21900 and CVE-2024-21901, only merit medium ratings because they require authentication. Need help patching quickly? or later to fix the flaw.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

27 — Thanksgiving Day weekend — Jim got a series of rapid-fire emails from MSF saying they’ve received his loan application, that they’d approved it, and that the funds requested were now available at the bank account specified in his MSF profile. Then on Nov. Take a look at that 546.56 for that $1,000.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings. Twitter API.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. A long time coming.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ransomware is a breakout ransomware group that became operational shortly after the shutdown of the REvil Ransomware and DarkSide Ransomware operations in late Summer 2021. T1070 Valid Accounts BlackMatter uses valid accounts to logon to the victim network. . 23, 2021). . [5] BlackMatter?Ransomware dll, advapi32.dll,

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On his blog , Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ In May of 2021, Hunt announced that the FBI had reached out to him and discussed what it might look like if the FBI were to feed compromised passwords into HIBP and surface them via the Pwned Passwords feature. Police pipeline.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Microsoft, for instance, just released the 2021 Digital Defense Report pointing a finger at Russia as making up 58% of all nation-state cyberattack incidents observed by the corporation. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

Volexity experts the compromise of Microsoft Exchange servers belonging to its customers and discovered that the attackers exploited a zero-day server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange ( CVE-2021-26855 ). . “The attacker was using the vulnerability to steal the full contents of several user mailboxes.

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