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

Collectively, these episodes highlight the need for comprehensive cybersecurity defenses and timely patch management for risk mitigation. CVE-2023-3519 was used by the attackers to infect computers, including misleading PowerShell scripts, malware payloads within normal processes, and PHP web shells for remote control. are affected.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Assess risks. Creating a solid cybersecurity foundation begins with understanding the organization’s risks. 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. Train staff regularly.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

As the majority of the global Covid fog finally started lifting in 2022, other events – and their associated risks – started to fill the headspace of C-level execs the world over. Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

US CISA added two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748, in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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NopSec

JULY 28, 2023

We had the opportunity to be picky about our curated selection of critical risks to report. Good news for blog content, but less so for production networks. Seriously, who is using ColdFusion in 2023? Finally, we cover a pre-authentication RCE vulnerability identified in the business intelligence software Metabase.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

billion work hours in 2023 and helped raise customer satisfaction to 69% for $0.50 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. per interaction.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. She has been shortlisted for the Piccaso Privacy Awards 2023 in two categories: ESG privacy initiative, and the privacy award for achievement.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

What are some personal cybersecurity concerns for 2023? We can benefit from these the most if we are aware of the possible risks and take measures to use them wisely. Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been predicted to soar in 2023 according to Forbes Advisor. And what are some ways we can protect ourselves?

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Recently, VIPRE Security Group published their Email Security in 2023 report , where they shared insights on the development of email-based threats and how they can impact organizations. What Can We Expect in 2023? 3 Small businesses are at risk. It’s not likely to stop there. 1 There will be more remote work-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the following three new issues to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog : CVE-2023-28432 (CVSS score – 7.5) – MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability. CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score – 9.8) – PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout 2023, we’ve heard about many high-profile security incidents targeting a wide range of publicly listed companies. To add, Cisco Talos 2023 Year in Review (page 7) highlights hackers' use of “Valid Accounts” as the second most common attack technique observed for the year. WebAuthn is important.

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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. Nonprofits are equally at risk, and often lack cybersecurity measures. The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

.” The researchers reported the issues to the United States Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which assigned the following five CVEs: Use of Hard-coded Credentials CWE-798 ( CVE-2023–1748 , CVSS3.0: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639 ( CVE-2023–1749 , CVSS3.0:

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for September 2023 includes 59 vulnerabilities, five of them rated critical and two currently being exploited in the wild. The two vulnerabilities currently being exploited are CVE-2023-36761 , an information disclosure flaw in Microsoft Word with a CVSS score of 6.2;

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Phone number spoofing involves manipulating caller ID displays to mimic legitimate phone numbers, giving scammers a deceptive veil of authenticity. To verify their authenticity, Nicolas asked for proof, but the scammers insisted he Google the Bank of America number. Suspicious, he trusted his instincts and called the bank directly.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

The average enterprise storage and backup device typically has 15 vulnerabilities , researchers found, three of which are high or critical risk. The top risk is insecure network settings, followed by unaddressed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), access rights issues, as well as insecure user management and authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. CISA orders federal agencies to fix this flaw by April 28, 2023.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. That’s why many tech companies are turning to passkeys as a more secure and convenient replacement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

D-Link fixed two critical flaws in its D-View 8 network management suite that could lead to authentication bypass and arbitrary code execution. in its D-View 8 network management suite that could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. ” reads the advisory published by ZDI.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And, as promised, the beta version was made available for download in the Play Store on Friday November 17, 2023. But to do this the Nothing Chats application is required to send your Apple ID credentials to its servers, so it can authenticate on your behalf. This isn’t a major problem for everyone, but the authentication is.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Many organizations struggle with authentication processes that frustrate and burden users to the point that they see security as nothing but a point of friction. Here, we explore how Cisco Duo’s risk-based authentication can decrease false positives, accelerate frictionless trusted access, and help you assess risk at the point of login.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

February 5, 2024 JetBrains TeamCity Saga Continues with Another Server Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass by an unauthenticated attacker. The RCE vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-40547 and has a severity rating of 8.3. Both vulnerabilities affected authenticated users of Apache Oozie and Apache Ambari.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Although IBM hopes to make a 1,000-qubit machine by 2023, widespread adoption of quantum computing is still decades away. What are the security risks? Here are a few things companies can do to protect themselves from future risks: Adopt industry security standards.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8, is being actively exploited.

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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. In the context of the attack shown in the previous section, after multiple failed authentications the attacker would be disabled from making further Push attempts.

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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. Even before the high-profile attacks in 2023, the trend in adopting zero trust security principles already showed that identity security must be a major priority for organizations of all sizes.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this article we’ll explore security risks of TOTP and an alternative 2FA method to increase security. Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. Would the app still let me authenticate? Why yes, it did.

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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. ” states VulnCheck.

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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. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz.

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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." As 23andMe says in its own blog post, "Since 2019 we’ve offered and encouraged users to use multi-factor authentication."

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

MARCH 13, 2024

Several significant vulnerabilities have been discovered in managed file transfer (MFT) applications over the last 12 months, for example CVE-2023-34362 , an SQL injection and Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer application, and CVE-2024-0204 , an authentication bypass issue for Fortra GoAnywhere.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In partnership with the Cyentia Institute, Duo analyzed data from more than 16 billion authentications, spanning nearly 52 million different browsers, on 58 million endpoints and 21 million unique phones across regions including North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

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