Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

A critical authentication bypass flaw in miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, can allow gaining access to any account on a site. “Ultimately, this makes it possible for threat actors to bypass authentication and gain access to arbitrary accounts on sites running a vulnerable version of the plugin.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“Retailers must take meaningful steps to protect consumers’ credit and debit card information from theft when they shop,” said Massachusetts AG Maura Healey. ” .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It’s no secret that cyber security has become a leading priority for most organizations — especially those in industries that handle sensitive customer information. And as these businesses work towards building robust security strategies, it’s vital that they account for various threat vectors and vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Sophos Firewall affected by a critical authentication bypass flaw Mar 20- Mar 26 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict Security Affairs newsletter Round 358 by Pierluigi Paganini Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5 CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

and would provide additional updates as more information emerges. x (released in 2020) utilized to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) version 10.x SonicWall published an Urgent Security Notice for NetExtender VPN Client 10.X,

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Recommendations provided in these rankings are general in nature and based on information security best practices standards and guidelines, such as OWASP and NIST. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In early October, Fortinet addressed the critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. On October 18, Fortinet confirmed the critical authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. ” concludes the post.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. Despite this, physical security must be implemented correctly to prevent attackers from gaining physical access and taking whatever they desire.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The operation reversibly modified the routers’ firewall rules to block remote management access to the devices. Attackers replaced binaries on compromised EdgeRouters with trojanized OpenSSH server binaries allowing remote attackers to bypass authentication. ” continues the report. Upgrade to the latest firmware version.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

VIBs are collections of files that are designed to manage virtual systems, they can be used to create startup tasks, custom firewall rules, or deploy custom binaries upon the restart of an ESXi machine. The CVE-2023-20867 flaw is exclusively exploitable by an attacker with root access to the ESXi server. .

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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. “It is recommended that your QNAP NAS stay behind your router and firewall without a public IP address. Set up a new administrator account, and disable the default admin account.

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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: Improper Authentication Validation CWE-287 ( CVE-2023–1752 , CVSS3.0:

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In order to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. “Microsoft has observed Volt Typhoon attempting to dump credentials through the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). .

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls. We’ll cover a range of best practices for remote access security, from the simple and the practical to the more advanced. Avoid using default or simple-to-guess passwords.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

“VMware Tools contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module.” “A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine.” ” reads the advisory published by VMware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments. Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The data breach compromised payment card information of roughly 40 million customers. It has also agreed to strengthen its information security program through a series of steps, which must be done within 180 days of the agreement. The company will pay a total of $17.5 million to 46 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

“These vulnerabilities may allow locally managed accounts within Device Manager to be susceptible to dictionary attacks due to weak cipher implementation (CVE-2020-6925) and allow a malicious actor to remotely gain unauthorized access to resources (CVE-2020-6926), and/or allow a malicious actor to gain SYSTEM privileges (CVE-2020-6927).”

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These groups are having lots of discussion around the fact that many campuses are required to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their cyber liability insurance. The use of phishing to take over user accounts as a first step to gain access to a campus for a ransomware attack has been making the headlines.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2024

Cisco warns customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services of Cisco Secure Firewall devices. Cisco is warning customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. In one example, analysis of PowerShell console host history for a compromised user account revealed Rhysida actors leveraged PuTTy to remotely connect to systems via SSH [ T1021.004 ].

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

Here are the simple tips for API security, let’s have a look! Authentication. To increase the complexity of hacking your device, always get to know who is calling your APIs, by using a simple access authentication (user/password) or an API key (asymmetric key). API Firewalling. Encryption. Just be cryptic.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Section 6 A requirement coming into force in March 2025 is that organisations will need to have a web application firewall in place for any web applications exposed to the internet. Section 7 Not much has changed in this section.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Use multiple-factor authentication. Ensure anti-virus, spam filters, and firewalls are up to date, properly configured and secure. “The attempt on Friday was thwarted.

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Passwords Social Engineering Software System Administration 140

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost. Finally, the hacker gains access to the victims’ official account using the OTP(2FA). 4f421deb219c[.]ngrok[.]io)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

no authentication and clear-text communication Incorrect HTTP requests cause out of range access in Zope XSS on the web interface Private SSH key Backdoor APIs Backdoor management access and RCE Pre-auth RCE with chrooted access. Also, there is no firewall by default.” “MySQL is pre-configured with several static accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

“The actors have leveraged privileged accounts to gain access to VMware vCenter Server and reset account passwords [ T1098 ] for ESXi servers in the environment. If you use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), secure and monitor it. Use standard user accounts on internal systems instead of?administrative?accounts,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. The researcher Victor Zhu detailed a Redis unauthorized access vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise Redis instances exposed online. bash_history).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” Experts suggest securing vulnerable RDP Gateway servers by installing the security updates ([ 1 ], [ 2 ]) released by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2020

“During a routine research audit for our Sucuri Firewall , we discovered an Unauthenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) affecting 40,000+ users of the WP Product Review plugin.” Once the attacker has authenticated as an admin, it could add a new admin account to take over the site.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

.” The FBI flash alert also includes mitigations to prevent LockBit ransomware infections: Require all accounts with password logins (e.g.,

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Ransomware Backups Encryption Accountability 93

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks. Zeppelin actors request ransom payments in Bitcoin, they range from several thousand dollars to over a million dollars.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

. “ we found that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins also contain logical issues in the code that allows you to login into an administrator account without a password.” ” reads the security advisory published by the experts. 14-01-2020 – Security advisory publicly released.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 2, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Onfido , the global identity verification and authentication company, today announced that it has been honored for its innovative fraud prevention technology. This means businesses can see their customers for who they are, without compromising on experience, conversion, privacy or security.

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