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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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 started with usernames and passwords – something you know. What is passwordless? It is MFA Phishing Resistant.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). Brute forcing passwords (10 percent) came in third. Poor password practices are responsible for most incidents involving web applications and data breaches since 2009. Authentication bypass. Brute forcing passwords.

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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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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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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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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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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Talks of passkeys, passphrases, and even password less all point in one direction: eroding faith in the previously trusty password tucked under your keyboard. These habits highlight the need for more modern password technology and stronger authentication methods.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

.” The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-27357 , CVE-2023-27367 , CVE-2023-27368 , CVE-2023-27369 , CVE-2023-27370 , were demonstrated by Claroty researchers during the 2022 Pwn2Own Toronto hacking contest as part of an exploit. The remaining ones are authentication bypass and command injection flaws.

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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. The ongoing campaign has targeted more than 10,000 Office 365 organisations since September 2021, using ‘adversary in the middle’ (AiTM) sites to steal passwords and hijack login sessions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

The most critical vulnerabilities are: CVE-2023-27267 : missing authentication and insufficient input validation in the OSCommand Bridge of SAP Diagnostics Agent, version 720, can be exploited by an attacker to execute scripts on connected Diagnostics Agents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

Cisco has released security patches to fix a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 10), tracked as CVE-2022-20695 , in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC). A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw to bypass authentication and log in to the device through the management interface. or Release 8.10.162.0 or Release 8.10.162.0

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2023

It affects Catalina and subsequent macOS versions riding on Intel M1 and M2 CPUs," according to an Uptycs blog post. " The stealer exhibits the following capabilities: Collect the passwords, cookies, and credit card data from Firefox, Google Chrome, and Brave browsers Extract files (.txt,doc,docx,pdf,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,jpg,png,csv,bmp,mp3,zip,rar,py,db)

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Late in March, researchers discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965) in Spring, an open-source framework for the Java platform. You can find more details, including appropriate mitigation steps, in our blog post.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit.

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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 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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Security Boulevard

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 ). Google Cloud.

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2023

The vulnerability could have allowed malicious threat actors to turn off a user's two-factor authentication (2FA) protection simply by knowing the user's phone number or email address. At that point, an attacker could potentially try to take over the victim's Facebook account by phishing for the password, since 2FA would no longer be enabled.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Volvo’s retailer exposed its database’s authentication information, including MySQL and Redis database hosts, open ports and credentials. Attackers may have exploited leaked credentials to brute force access to the repository, since they only needed a password, which is faster than guessing both a username and password.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The leaked information included names, phone numbers, emails, private communication via SMS messages, passwords, and employees’ credentials. Although leaked passwords were not in plain text, they were hashed using the easily crackable WordPress MD5/phpass hashing algorithm.

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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. WebAuthn allows servers to register and authenticate users using Public Key Cryptography. How do users enroll? What makes these methods so secure?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

“With this level of detail, impersonating network or internal hosts would be far simpler for an attacker, especially since the devices often contain VPN credentials or other easily cracked authentication tokens.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The alert includes indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with BlackCat/ALPHV, as of mid-February 2022. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password-protect backup copies offline. Use multifactor authentication where possible. Implement the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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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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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager In 2022, threat actors leaked more than 721 million passwords. Among the passwords exposed, 72 percent of users were found to be still using already-compromised passwords. Turn on Multifactor Authentication Even strong, secure passwords can be exposed by attackers.

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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

APRIL 8, 2022

Authentication. Two-factor authentication is another important security measure for the cloud era. This means that in addition to your password, you will also need a second factor, such as a code from a key fob or a fingerprint, to access your data. Increasingly, passwordless authentication is becoming the norm.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2022

Credential stuffing is a special type of brute force attack where the attacker uses existing username and password combinations, usually ones that were stolen in a data breach on another service. GM is also forcing affected users to reset their passwords before logging in to their accounts again. Credential stuffing. The attack.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In fact, the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report revealed an alarming 13 percent increase in ransomware attacks overall – greater than past five years combined – and the inability to properly manage identities and privileges across the enterprise is often the root cause. Related: Replacing VPNs with ZTNA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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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 Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2022

Mon, 03/07/2022 - 16:34. Once they find one, they attempt to log in using common usernames and crackable passwords. Adds Milbert: “The problem behind it is the fact that this key is an authentication point. Regular user accounts are still vulnerable to password guessing by bots. How to Control Root-Level SSH Access.

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