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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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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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

“Successful exploits could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, highjack internet connections and redirect traffic to malicious websites or inject malware into network traffic. The remaining ones are authentication bypass and command injection flaws. ” concludes the advisory.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) , tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. “This vulnerability is due to the presence of a static SSH host key. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

In late 2022, the researcher Sam Sabetan discovered a series of critical vulnerabilities in several smart devices manufactured by Nexx, including Smart Garage Door Openers, Alarms, and Plugs. .” Improper Authentication Validation CWE-287 ( CVE-2023–1752 , CVSS3.0: Improper Input Validation CWE-20 ( CVE-2023–1751 , CVSS3.0:

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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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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

By analyzing the data from its Global Sensor Intelligence (CGSI), Cyble researchers noticed a spike in attacks on port 5900 (the default port for VNC) between July 9 and August 9, 2022. It detected more than 8,000 exposed VNC instances with authentication disabled.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

Atlassian warned of an actively exploited critical unpatched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. Waiting for the fixes, Atlassian urges customers to restrict Confluence Server and Data Center instances from the internet or consider disabling Confluence Server and Data Center instances.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Siemens Metaverse, a virtual space built to mirror real machines, factories, and other highly complex systems, has exposed sensitive data, including the company’s office plans and internet of things (IoT) devices. In 2022, it partnered with NVidia, an American multinational technology company, to build the industrial metaverse.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Additionally, since this product is unlikely to be exposed to the internet, the attacker likely has already established a foothold somewhere else on the network.” The other flaws fixed by VMware are: CVE-2022-31710 – Deserialization Vulnerability (CVSS score 7.5) ” reads a post published by Horizon3’s Attack Team.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

In addition, 16Shop employed various tricks to help its users’ phishing pages stay off the radar of security firms, including a local “blacklist” of Internet addresses tied to security companies, and a feature that allowed users to block entire Internet address ranges from accessing phishing pages.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

The issue was discovered by Horizon3 researchers who reported that there are more than 3000 instances of the platform exposed to the Internet. Installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions allow for an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

UPnP is an insecure protocol, it uses network UDP multicasts, and doesn’t support encryption and authentication. ” The vendor also recommends enabling the VPN server function on the user router to access QNAP NAS from the Internet. Do not let your QNAP NAS obtain a public IP address. For example, change 8080 to 9527.

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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. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The data breach was caused by a database misconfiguration that was accessible to anyone without authentication. In October 2022, Toyota Motor Corporation warned customers that their personal information may have been accidentally exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In November 2022, we announced the general availability of Duo Passwordless. With this release, many high security and low friction authentication methods were made available. It is behind the widescale growth of ecommerce on the internet. WebAuthn allows servers to register and authenticate users using Public Key Cryptography.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. Protect internet-facing services Defend against brute force and password spraying Defend against phishing. Enforce multifactor authentication (MFA). Manage account authentication and authorization.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. These habits highlight the need for more modern password technology and stronger authentication methods.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The instructions above can be found on the Microsoft blog , with screenshots. On his blog on the subject he points out that if you don’t run Microsoft Exchange on premise, and don’t have Outlook Web App (OWA) facing the internet, you are not impacted either. *autodiscover.json.*@.*Powershell.* Powershell.*

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The Jester stealer is able to steal credentials and authentication tokens from Internet browsers, MAIL/FTP / VPN clients, cryptocurrency wallets, password managers, messengers, game programs, and more. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Researchers from FortiGuard Labs first discovered the previously undetected RapperBot IoT botnet in August, and reported that it is active since mid-June 2022. ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. ” We are in the final!

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Thu, 09/29/2022 - 09:42. Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” of all internet activity in 2021 , up from 40.8% Hence, device-to-device, API-to-API, container-to-container, or, in a word, machine-to-machine communications must be authenticated. brooke.crothers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

Microsoft has also published a blog post about phishing campaigns tied to Storm-0978 and to the exploitation of this flaw. In late 2022, security experts at Sophos , Trend Micro and Cisco warned that ransomware criminals were using signed, malicious drivers in an attempt to evade antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools.

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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. The email address akafitis@gmail.com was used to create a Livejournal blog profile named Fitis that has a large bear as its avatar.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

Volt Typhoon targets internet-facing Fortinet FortiGuard devices to achieve initial access to targeted organizations. 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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

APIs then played an important role in the birth of the Internet, offering a way for applications to exchange data across the Internet via a specific set of protocols. In fact, in December 2022, the company’s customers saw a spike in attacks of 400% compared to just a few months prior.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

Mon, 05/30/2022 - 12:04. The use of internet connected medical devices can be incredibly scary if the right security isn’t put in place. They serve to identify and authenticate the various connected devices to the organization’s network. Why Healthcare IoT Requires Strong Machine Identity Management. brooke.crothers. UTM Medium.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

CVE-2022-4886 (Path Sanitization Bypass): This 8.8-level level vulnerability involves a lack of validation, which allows attackers to steal Kubernetes API credentials from the ingress controller, compromise the authentication process by modifying settings, and gain access to internal files including service account tokens.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

Mon, 07/11/2022 - 16:49. Over half of internet-connected devices used in hospitals have a vulnerability that could put patient safety, confidential data, or the usability of a device at risk, according to a new report from the healthcare cybersecurity company Cynerio. Lack of authentication creates man-in-the-middle risks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 15:03. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation. brooke.crothers. What SHA-1 history can teach us? How are we going to organize the migration of this intricate system, from a management perspective? UTM Medium.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. This means that the threat actor was able to avoid detection for more than 15 years.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR 2022: Cyberattacks Reported At High Frequency. 2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. Viasat Inc., One such beam is located over Kyiv. Like other cyber-criminal operations (e.g.,

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tue, 08/30/2022 - 15:00. issued a market bulletin dated August 16, 2022 setting out new rules for standalone cyber-attack policies that would exclude coverage for damages from state-sponsored attacks. The attacks on Estonia were DDOS attacks that brought down Internet infrastructure and major websites in the country.

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