Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Atlassian fixed a critical flaw in its Jira software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 , that could be exploited to bypass authentication. Atlassian has addressed a critical vulnerability in its Jira Seraph software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 (CVSS score 9.9), that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fortinet has confirmed that the recently disclosed critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2022-40684) is being exploited in the wild. Last week, Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684 , that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft has posted a reminder on the Exchange Team blog that Basic authentication for Exchange Online will be disabled in less than a month, on October 1, 2022. For many years, client apps have used Basic authentication to connect to servers, services and endpoints. So, as always, some aren't ready. The schedule.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2022 address three zero-day vulnerabilities, one of them actively exploited. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2022 addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is under active attack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Jolokia (CVE-2022-41678). An authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to write a malicious file through the Jolokia service, thus implementing remote code execution.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to use the PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) in addition to bypassing Duo 2FA to compromise an unpatched Windows machine and gain administrative privileges. This activity was documented as early as May, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication flaw in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication vulnerability affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Per Microsoft’s evaluation, the vulnerability required no authentication and could have been remotely exploited. The post Patch Tuesday August 2022 – Microsoft Fixes 21 Vulnerabilities, Including a Zero-Day Bug appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Patch Tuesday August Roundup Not much to report on […].

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NSTIC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today’s blog will jumpstart NIST’s celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022! We have a lot in store for October and are looking forward to sharing our work, progress, events, and news with you.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2022

Palo Alto Networks addressed a high-severity OpenSSL infinite loop vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0778 , that affects some of its firewall, VPN, and XDR products. According to Palo Alto Networks, the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition and crash vulnerable devices.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service ( RaaS ) groups— Onyx , Mindware , and Black Basta —as well as the unwelcome return of REvil , one of the world’s most notorious and dangerous ransomware operations. Ransomware attacks in April 2022. Known ransomware attacks in April 2022 by country.

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Fox IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The adversary exploited the R1Soft server software via CVE-2022-36537 [1] [2] , which is a vulnerability in the ZK Java Framework that R1Soft Server Backup Manager utilises. Further research by us indicates that world-wide exploitation of R1Soft server software started around the end of November 2022.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fake donation sites started popping up after the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2022, pretending to accept money as aid to Ukraine. The pandemic The COVID-19 theme had lost relevance by late 2022 as the pandemic restrictions had been lifted in most countries. “Promotional campaigns by major banks” were a popular bait in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In mid-June 2022, a flood of SMS phishing messages began targeting employees at commercial staffing firms that provide customer support and outsourcing to thousands of companies. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Image: Cloudflare.com.

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Pentester Academy

APRIL 20, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Authorization Bypass in RegexRequestMatcher [CVE-2022–22978] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It must be a route accessible to authenticated users.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2022, 88% of users relied on chatbots when interacting with businesses. Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities: Weak authentication methods and compromised access tokens can provide unauthorized access. This helps them improve their performance over time by gaining data from interactions. These tools saved 2.5

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s the difference between Basic and Modern Authentication? Basic Authentication…. The post CISO Urges Switch to Microsoft Exchange Online Modern Authentication: What You Need to Know appeared first on Nuspire.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently teamed to release their 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into cloud security topics from these predictions focusing on the targeting of API services and apps exploitation of containers in 2022. insufficient authentication and authorization restrictions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Below is the list of the four vulnerabilities, the most severe one is a command injection flaw in some CLI commands tracked as CVE-2022-26532 (CVSS v3.1 CVE-2022-0910 : An authentication bypass vulnerability caused by the lack of a proper access control mechanism has been found in the CGI program of some firewall versions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Fortinet has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41331 (CVSS score of 9.3), in its Fortinet FortiPresence data analytics solution. Successful exploitation can lead to remote, unauthenticated access to Redis and MongoDB instances via crafted authentication requests. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Exchange Online users are warned about the increasing number of password spray attacks that use Microsoft’s Exchange Basic Authentication feature. The goal is to implement multi-factor authentication […]. The post Microsoft Takes Measures Against Password Spray Attacks appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What cyber security threats should enterprises look out for in 2022? Skilled engineers and security architects from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye offer a preview of how the threatscape might look in 2022 and how these new or evolving threats could potentially impact the security of enterprises, countries, and civilians.

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our fourth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blog for #2 , my unofficial blog for #3 ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022. However, due to a vulnerability in the SHA Authentication scheme, an attacker is able to gain unauthorized access and complete the authentication process. CVSS score: 8.1).

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Before we can discuss passkeys, we need to lay some groundwork and discuss authentication, Passwordless and WebAuthn. What is authentication? Authentication is the process of verifying your online identity. We added multi-factor authentication (MFA) – something you know and something you have or are. What is passwordless?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 6, 2022

We tried to use a Trello board, blog posts, Twitter updates, Slack channels, and other tools, but we heard these media are not always easy to follow. In March 2022, we published a month-long survey asking the community to react to various feature requests and new ideas so we could get a sense of what to prioritize in the coming year.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

Many professionals agree multi-factor authentication (MFA) can improve security, but a recent discovery showed that it’s no panacea either. Microsoft’s extensive blog has more details. It’s now accepting applications to start in September 2022. Lance Spitzner of SANS has an excellent analysis of Verizon’s 2022 DBIR.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. On March 25, Sophos announced to have fixed the authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, that resides in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

Being PCI compliant is essential to properly handle sensitive data including payment card data, cardholder data, and even sensitive authentication data. The fourth version of the PCI DDS launch date has not yet been specifically announced, however, the PCI SSC has declared it will be released before the end of March 2022. The Solution.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

VMware addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability “affecting local domain users” in multiple products. The virtualization giant warns that a threat actor can exploit the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-22972 (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8), to obtain admin privileges and urges customers to install patches immediately.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Sporting events, like the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 (Qatar 2022 World Cup), attract massive attention from every corner of the world. After triaging said incidents to remove false positives, we collected the true positive incidents to analyze them and better comprehend how attackers were targeting the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Out of the vulnerabilities presented in the vendor`s advisory, the most dangerous one appears to be CVE-2022-22241, a remote pre-authenticated PHP archive file deserialization vulnerability with the CVSS score […]. The post Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in Juniper Junos OS appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Later this week, proof-of-concept exploit code will be made available for a serious vulnerability in multiple VMware products that permits remote code execution (RCE) without authentication. The post Proof-of-Concept Exploit Code to be Released for Critical Zoho RCE Bug appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The American technology giant, Cisco, confirmed that the data leaked by Yanluowang ransomware gang on September 11, 2022, is authentic. The post Yanluowang Ransomware Gang Leaked Cisco Stolen Data appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The data now released on the dark web was stolen in a cyberattack in May, this year.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

I recently learned that you can coerce NTLM authentication from SCCM servers using any Windows SCCM client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled and NTLM has not been explicitly disabled. Next, we need to set up ntlmrelayx to capture and relay NTLM authentication received from our target computers.

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