Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. emphasized collective action and individual accountability. Protect IT."

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

A flaw in Microsoft Outlook can be exploited to access NTLM v2 hashed passwords by tricking users into opening a specially crafted file. The vulnerability CVE-2023-35636 impacting Microsoft Outlook is a Microsoft Outlook information disclosure issue that could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Iran-linked Peach Sandstorm APT is behind password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023. The campaign targeted thousands of organizations worldwide between February and July 2023. ” Microsoft concludes.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta said the intrusion allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from fewer than one percent of its 18,000+ customers. When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. In a previous disclosure on Nov.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) , starting in mid-2024. Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

This GitLab password exploit tracked as CVE-2023-7028, has been actively exploited in the wild, posing significant risks to organizations utilizing GitLab for their development workflows. […] The post CISA Alert: GitLab Password Exploit – Act Now For Protection appeared first on TuxCare.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 30, 2023

If you’ve read part one, you’ll know that there’s a persistent problem with passwords. Despite the continued warnings, data breaches and endless guidance – a weak and easily hackable password guards a sobering number of online accounts and identities. Keen to get rid of the passwords for all your Google accounts?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 12, 2024

Narang highlighted CVE-2024-21390 as a particularly interesting vulnerability in this month’s Patch Tuesday release, which is an elevation of privilege flaw in Microsoft Authenticator , the software giant’s app for multi-factor authentication. ” CVE-2024-21334 earned a CVSS (danger) score of 9.8 (10

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cisco is aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actors targeting Cisco ASA VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication. “This highlights the importance of enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) in VPN implementations. . ” reads a post published by Cisco PSIRT.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In today’s complex IT landscape, one of the biggest problems faced by a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and their IT security team are forgotten and stolen passwords. On average, employees lose 11 hours per year resetting passwords and an average company spends ~$5M per year on setting and resetting passwords.

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Google Security

MAY 2, 2024

Sriram Karra and Christiaan Brand, Google product managers Last year, Google launched passkey support for Google Accounts. Today, we announced that passkeys have been used to authenticate users more than 1 billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts. This post will seek to clarify these topics. Flexible portability.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although the " unauthorized party" that compromised LastPass users' data was able to steal password vaults, it's likely that they are having a hard time cracking them open. Brute force guessing techniques may be successful for some weak passwords, but it's an approach that quickly runs out of steam. For us, data security is paramount.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2023

Following criticism, Google has decided to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Google Authenticator cloud backups. The search giant recently introduced a feature that allows users back up two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) tokens to the cloud, but the lack of encryption caused some commentators to warn people off using it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach. Okta provided additional details about the October 2023 breach and revealed additional threat actor malicious activities. On Thursday, October 19, Okta advised customers of a security incident.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

September 5, 2023 Atlas VPN Leaks Users’ IP Addresses Type of attack: Zero-Day Vulnerability, a new vulnerability that is often difficult to fix since no patch is available on the market yet. Alarmingly, this API lacks any form of authentication, allowing virtually anyone, even a malicious website you might visit, to send commands to the CLI.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. In March 2023, Microsoft published guidance for investigating attacks exploiting the patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. Cybercriminals took advantage of this in 2023. Needless to say, the promised payout was never credited to their account.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Group-IB recently uncovered a significant security breach involving ChatGPT accounts. These compromised accounts pose a serious risk to businesses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, which has experienced the highest concentration of ChatGPT credentials for sale.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 30, 2023

World Password Day has come around again. Since its inception, it’s an awareness day designed to promote and reinforce the importance of better habits when it comes to password settings. Now, as passwords are often the first port of call for our online / digital identities – it’s of course important that good habits are encouraged.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 3, 2024

How 50% of telco Orange Spain’s traffic got hijacked — a weak password So here’s a funny story. The threat actor accessed Orange’s RIPE account. You may notice two step authentication is disabled — RIPE don’t require it, and it isn’t enabled by default for new accounts either. ARIN did this in February 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We also highlight a study by Outpost24 that reveals startling password weaknesses in admin-level IT accounts. There’s plenty to consider in this vulnerability roundup, even if it’s just your IT team’s password habits. and CVE-2023-20273 with a CVSS Score of 7.2.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

The IT world relies on digital authentication credentials, such as API keys, certificates, and tokens, to securely connect applications, services, and infrastructures. Related: The coming of agile cryptography These secrets work similarly to passwords, allowing systems to interact with one another.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

See the Top Patch and Vulnerability Management tools October 23, 2023 Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Under Active Attack Type of attack: Active exploitation of the high-risk Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability ( CVE-2023-4966 ) disclosed on October 10, 2023 and now known as Citrix Bleed.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

From March 19, users of Twitter won’t be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. You can still use the authentication app and security key methods. To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But conventional protection solutions, like password security, fall short when it comes to efficacy. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers. Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . Then on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused. Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage. I have fixed your RIPE admin account security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2024

The company was the victim of credential stuffing attacks against its website and mobile application on November 18-19 and November 25, 2023. The attackers detected suspicious login activity to certain Hot Topic Rewards accounts. Threat actors obtained valid account credentials obtained from an unknown third-party source.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

USDoD is also believed to be involved in a breach at TransUnion , the data of which was (partly) dumped in September, 2023. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

SAP April 2023 security updates include a total of 24 notes, 19 of which are new vulnerabilities. CVE-2023-28765 : An attacker with basic privileges in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Promotion Management) – versions 420, 430, can exploit the issue to access to lcmbiar file and further decrypt the file.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) December 21, 2023 The use of FalseFont is a trademark of APT33’s operations and confirms that the nation-state actor continues to improve its arsenal. The recent attacks involving FalseFont were first observed in early November 2023. reads the report published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

August 21, 2023 Ivanti finds another vulnerability For the third time in a month, Ivanti’s has reported a vulnerability in a mobile device management platform. The latest — CVE-2023-38035 — affects the Sentry secure mobile gateway, part of Ivanti’s UEM platform and is being exploited as a zero-day.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

August 28, 2023 Ransomware Group Exploits Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability In July, Citrix released a patch for a critical remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2023-3519 ), which affected the company’s NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products and carried a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scale.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

19, 2023, someone targeted a T-Mobile phone number belonging to a Kroll employee “in a highly sophisticated ‘SIM swapping’ attack.” Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. Why do I suggest this?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, the much-used search engine across the world, has disclosed some security steps to its Gmail users to stay cyber safe in the year 2023. Always keep your google account safe by going through the Security Checkup and Privacy Checkup pages once or twice in 3 months.

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