The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2021

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090 ) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090 , impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Not All Authentication Methods Are Equally Safe. There is broad recognition by security leaders that stronger authentication is foundational to preventing data breaches. While the concept of multifactor authentication is comprehensive, the devil is hiding in the implementation detail. Distinct user authentication journeys.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2022

cybersecurity agencies joined their counterparts around the globe to urge organizations to address the top 15 vulnerabilities exploited in 2021. The advisory entails the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that were routinely exploited by malicious cyber actors in 2021, plus another 21 frequently exploited CVEs.

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McAfee

MAY 10, 2021

Even as the internet kept us connected with family and friends during the pandemic, people remain understandably eager to reconnect in person as vaccines roll out and restrictions ease. People are m ore c onnected and m ore p rotected in 2021 . In fact, people are making travel plans accordingly. Stay Updated? .

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. During 2020 and 2021, more than 500 router vulnerabilities were found. The nvd.nist.gov website presents different figures, but they too show a significant increase in the number of router vulnerabilities found in 2020 and 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Fast and Safe Protection for 5G Subscriber Privacy and Authentication. Fri, 10/22/2021 - 06:18. The protection and authenticity of subscriber authentication and privacy in 5G networks is equally important to requirements for increased reliability and low latency. Meet us at the MWC Los Angeles 2021. cloud adoption.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Threat actors were spotted exploiting the CVE-2021-26084 vulnerability in Atlassian’s Confluence enterprise collaboration product a few days after it was patched by the vendor. Last week, Atlassian released security patches to address the critical CVE-2021-26084 flaw that affects the Confluence enterprise collaboration product.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. A Safer Internet of Things. The post The Internet of Things Is Everywhere.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. In 2021, IC3 received 1,611 SIM swapping complaints with adjusted losses of more than $68 million.”

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Google Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Posted by Harshvardhan Sharma, Information Security Engineer, Google 2021 was another record-breaking year for our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP). 2021 saw some amazing work from the security research community. We paid a total of $8.7 million in rewards, our highest amount yet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 30, 2021

Here is the most recent vulnerability report, including the top CVE list for the second quarter of 2021. The X-axis above depicts all vulnerabilities found in the second quarter from 1 April to 30 June 2021. The CVE Dirty Dozen for Q2 2021. vulnerability – CVE-2021-1675. Web application exploits continue to dominate.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Adair said while the exploits used by the group may have taken great skills to develop, they require little technical know-how to use and can give an attacker easy access to all of an organization’s email if their vulnerable Exchange Servers are directly exposed to the Internet.

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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The year 2021 was eventful in terms of digital threats for organizations and individuals, and financial institutions were no exception. share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2%

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2021

How to identify a spoofed email How to prevent email spoofing in 2021 Email spoofing is a constantly evolving threat. How to prevent email spoofing in 2021. The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) protocol is one of the most effective defenses against email spoofing. What is email spoofing?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

The seller, who goes online with the moniker MajorNelson, claims that the data was obtained from an unamed AT&T division by @ ShinyHunters in 2021. “It should be noted before anyone hits us with an “aktschually” – the data was stolen in 2021. The archive contains 73.481.539 records.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2021

On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that was discovered by Tenable was made public. The vulnerability is listed as CVE-2021-20090. Under the description of CVE-2021-20090 you will find: “a path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of Buffalo WSR-2533DHPL2 firmware version <= 1.02 Router firmware.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

It is set in 2021, after all. Any Device, Any Location, Any Service From Beijing to Newark, Johnny accesses the Internet from borrowed computers and back alleys. Any Device, Any Location, Any Service From Beijing to Newark, Johnny accesses the Internet from borrowed computers and back alleys. I admit it.

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

CVE-2021-43798: Grafana path traversal. However, if your organization is using this software, you probably should have followed the disclosure last month, lest your “/etc/passwd” files are now known to the whole internet. CVE 2021-44228: Log4Shell . CVE-2021-43527: Big Sig . What is it? . htaccess prompt or similar.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The seller, who goes online with the moniker MajorNelson, claims that the data was obtained from an unnamed AT&T division by @ ShinyHunters in 2021. It should be noted before anyone hits us with an “aktschually” – the data was stolen in 2021. The archive contains 73.481.539 records. “It It was leaked online today.”

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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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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. billion to $120 billion of the revenue in 2021, which is more than half of the estimated gaming industry value. billion in the first half of 2021. billion in the first half of 2021.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2022

“This allows attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to force domain controllers to authenticate to the attacker using NTLM authentication,” Wiseman said. ” “CVE-2021-36942 was so bad it made CISA’s catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ,” Wiseman said. in certain situations.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

The attack is capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and has targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), BEC attacks have led to over $43 billion in losses between June 2016 and December 2021.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

A September 2021 story here checked in on The Manipulaters, and found that Saim Raza and company were prospering under their FudCo brands, which they secretly managed from a front company called We Code Solutions. “Please remove this article,” Sam Raza wrote, linking to the 2021 profile. “Why you post us? But on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. The other use of our kit of real fingerprints is to cover-up the traces of your real internet activity.” Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments and training. Compromised Credentials: THE Most Observed Initial Access Vector .

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Over the last few years, the official labs team was disbanded, moving on to new projects, teams, and gigs — and the Duo Labs site was left to face the digital sands of internet time without much attention or thought. There hasn’t been a Duo Labs post since 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Government experts warn that in 2022, most of the exploited flaws were older software vulnerabilities and that threat actors targeted unpatched, internet-facing systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The seller, who goes online with the moniker MajorNelson, claimed that the data was obtained from an unnamed AT&T division by @ ShinyHunters in 2021. It should be noted before anyone hits us with an “aktschually” – the data was stolen in 2021. The archive contains 73.481.539 records. “It It was leaked online today.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. Microsoft discovered that the MSA key was accidentally leaked into a crash dump after a consumer signing system crashed in April 2021.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. New research by Cybernews shows an exponential rise in the uptake of internet-facing cameras. Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates. “The identity authentication bypass vulnerability found in some Dahua products during the login process.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. Also Read : Top Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) for 2021. AWS has been criticized for its “any authenticated AWS users” access option and inconsistent access control list (ACL) and bucket policies.

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