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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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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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Longer is stronger: why password length matters How long is your password? That’s one of the many fascinating insights from Hive Systems’ 2023 Password Table. For example, NIST recommends eight-character passwords but an attacker using RTX 4090 hardware could guess it in under an hour.) billion last year.

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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. Goodbye "Basic", hello "Modern". token-based authorization).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

We spoke with our blog volunteers to get their insights into what best practices their companies are following, along with how you can get on a path to better identity management. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In The dangers of improper management of digital identities are at an all-time high.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

What are some personal cybersecurity concerns for 2023? Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been predicted to soar in 2023 according to Forbes Advisor. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. And what are some ways we can protect ourselves?

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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NopSec

JULY 28, 2023

Good news for blog content, but less so for production networks. Seriously, who is using ColdFusion in 2023? On the hardware side of the spectrum, researchers discovered that AMD Zen2 CPUs are vulnerable to a memory dump vulnerability that could result in unintended disclosure of neat things like encryption keys and passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study found only 27% of charities undertook risk assessments in 2023 and only 11% said they reviewed risks posed by suppliers. Strengthen authentication. This means using longer passwords — at least 16 characters , as recommended by experts — in a random string of upper and lower letters, numbers, and symbols.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

In analyzing de-identified customer data over the latter half of 2023, we found a pattern of threat activity targeting multiple universities using shared attack infrastructure. Administrators should take care to monitor for unusual patterns of failed login activity and encourage affected users to set new strong, unique passwords.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. During authentication, the secret is used in combination with the time in a cryptographic hash function to produce a secure 6-digit passcode. But then it struck me.

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

May was a rather quiet month for security research, but an excellent write up filtered to the masses from the Pwn2own 2023 conference held in Vancouver, B.C. Finally, it wouldn’t be a worthy blog post if we didn’t include a nugget from patch Tuesday. tar file manipulation. tar file manipulation.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They include credentials that stay in use for a long time, inconsistent use of multi-factor authentication, and cloud workloads with non-administrator permissions. Cloud security was also a theme in Microsoft’s ‘Cybersecurity Trends in Ireland 2023’ report. MORE People’s password habits are getting better … slowly.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

It involves convincing a user to click on a malicious link in an email, which can then steal the user’s password hash and authenticate as the user in another Microsoft service. “Microsoft has updated their backend and notified any customers who have been affected by the credential leakage.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 11, 2024

March 4, 2024 JetBrains Server Issues Continue with New Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. The problem: Two authentication bypass vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 , allow unauthenticated attackers to exploit JetBrains TeamCity servers. The fix: Deploy JetBrains TeamCity version 2023.11.4

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Then the fall 2023 semester began, and a new pattern emerged. A trend of non-vetted content Not long into the fall 2023 semester, students began to cite blogs and vendor materials that made sense but were partly or entirely incorrect. It wasn't an infrequent problem during the fall 2023 semester.

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our fifth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 and #4 ). However, API key compromise [ A.C. — take

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Related: SMBs too often pay ransom Small businesses, including nonprofit organizations, are not immune to cyberattacks. Employee training is crucial.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Speaking with KrebsOnSecurity via Instagram instant message just days after the Twitter hack, PlugwalkJoe demanded that his real name be kept out of future blog posts here. In late April 2023, O’Connor was extradited from Spain to face charges in the United States. I haven’t done anything.”

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 7, 2023

A passkey is a phishing-resistant cryptographic keypair you register for web-based authentication. It’s the strongest authentication method available today, which is why you see passkeys moving to replace passwords altogether. As of July 2023 For a deeper dive into passkeys and their benefits, read ' What are Passkeys?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This overconfidence is cause for concern for many cybersecurity professionals as humans are the number one reason for breaches (how many of your passwords are qwerty or 1234five?). Only 33 percent consistently use two-factor authentication (2FA). Only 28 percent don’t use repeated passwords•Only 20 percent use a password manager.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2023

It joins three Windows-based malware families using Telegram in 2023, including Titan Stealer, Parallax RAT, and HookSpoofer, all of which exploit stealer command and control (C2). " It affects Catalina and subsequent macOS versions riding on Intel M1 and M2 CPUs," according to an Uptycs blog post. "

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 For one, solutions like Google Authenticator or Authy were far more confusing for the user during the enrollment process,” Stockdale said.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers from VulnCheck have developed a new exploit for the recently disclosed critical flaw in PaperCut servers, tracked as CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score: 9.8), that bypasses all current detections. The CVE-2023-27350 flaw is a PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability. ” concludes the experts.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2024

As you may have read many times before on our blog, some spyware companies have a surprisingly low standard of security. The observer can then log in on an online portal and activate recording, at which point a screen capture is taken on the target’s device. What goes around comes around, you might say.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In April 2023, FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a hacking campaign targeting Cacti ( CVE-2022-46169 ) and Realtek ( CVE-2021-35394 ) vulnerabilities to spread ShellBot and Moobot malware. Attackers replaced binaries on compromised EdgeRouters with trojanized OpenSSH server binaries allowing remote attackers to bypass authentication.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to Cisco Talos, three of the top five MITRE ATT@CK techniques used in 2023 were identity-based. Traditionally, credentials (such as usernames, passwords or security tokens) have been the gatekeepers of access. 1] Based on a report we issued in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Exposed sensitive files On February 17, 2023, the Cybernews research team discovered public access to sensitive files hosted on dimasvolvo.com.br Volvo’s retailer exposed its database’s authentication information, including MySQL and Redis database hosts, open ports and credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Frequent Ransomware Target QNAP Discloses 3 Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Improper authentication, injection vulnerability, SQL injection (SQLi). The other two vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-21900 and CVE-2024-21901, only merit medium ratings because they require authentication. The fix: Upgrade to Kubernetes versions 1.28.4

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The theme for 2023’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Secure Our World,” focusing on ways individuals and businesses can protect against online threats. Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager In 2022, threat actors leaked more than 721 million passwords. But the mission never ends.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 12, 2023

I am so glad I don’t have to create or remember passwords for every application. identity provider (IdP) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider (OP) that adds two-factor authentication. Already in the first half of 2023, we’ve added many apps to the Duo SSO applications catalog , including: 1Password (private preview) Aha!

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our fifth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 and #4 ). Threat actors diversified their initial access vectors.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Learn more on how passkey works under the hood in our Google Security Blog. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot.

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