Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

It is a well-known and established point that a password alone is not enough to secure an account. This type of attack is known as Account Manipulation: Device Registration. You can also check out this Duo help article that provides policy recommendations and directions for how to secure your accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

of account compromise attacks.” of account compromise attacks.” We have evolved from passwords to multi-factor authentication (MFA) to phishing-resistant passwordless — our most secure form of authentication to date. As Microsoft points out in their announcement, MFA “can block more than 99.2% MFA “can block more than 99.2%

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To be clear, all administrator accounts — regardless of use case — represent accounts with elevated levels of power and access and should be a focus of heightened security controls. Identity administrator accounts have elevated permissions to deploy, configure, and modify relevant identity systems.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials. Phishing attacks are becoming more difficult to detect. billion USD globally.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

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

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Here are some best practices to put in place after an identity breach occurs: Short-term best practices Identify and Remediate Affected Accounts: Conduct a thorough investigation to identify all compromised accounts. Reset and Secure Accounts: Force a password reset for all affected accounts and consider strengthening MFA requirements.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. This is why a multi-layered approach that can block phishing sites (including HTTPS) in real time, is key for staying safe. Who is the Impersonator?

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Schools, local governments and hospitals are some of the most commonly targeted types of institutions, accounting for some 2,400 breaches in 2020, according to the Ransomware Task Force’s (RTF) 2021 report. Educate end users – The next common method of compromise is phishing attacks, independent of company size.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Multiple account or credential compromise is the norm This result is surprising, but it’s not entirely new. Get more insight into key survey takeaways by reading ESG’s ebook on the state of Passwordless in the Enterprise.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

If the help desk worker complies, the attacker will have gained initial access and will typically reset the account credentials, both password and MFA devices, to be under their control. Account listed as Untrusted after logging in from new location without MFA Identity Intelligence also has an alert for sharing authenticators.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Compromised credentials and phishing attacks, our previous two points of focus in the series, are two of the most common entry paths to ransomware deployment. When users get phished, bad guys start attempting to use the stolen credentials within 10 minutes. In the final instalment of this series, we cover the rise of ransomware 3.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Outside her organization, cybercriminals exploited these shortcomings with increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and relentless persistence. Google's password manager or Apple's iCloud) and from there propagate to any other device the user may have linked to the same cloud account. Start with our eBook.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Human identities are being phished…. This explains the rise in phishing attacks targeting users. According to Help Net Security , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) detected 260,642 phishing attacks in July 2021. The issue is that users can’t always spot a phishing attempt. brooke.crothers.

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Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Access to financial information including bank accounts. Email is the #1 attack vector for SMBs, and serves as a primary starting point for malware, phishing, and other types of attacks. . Do they know how to spot a phishing email or other types of hacking attempts? Wondering why a threat actor would even go after an SMB?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

Cybercriminals employed all manner of schemes to target businesses and individuals, including phishing, spoofing and tech support fraud, the FBI reported. Phishing attacks topped the list of all cybercrimes, totaling 241,342 incidents – more than double the 2019 total of 114,702 – and causing losses of more than U.S. $54 54 million.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Outside her organization, cybercriminals exploited these shortcomings with increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and relentless persistence. Google's password manager or Apple's iCloud) and from there propagate to any other device the user may have linked to the same cloud account. Start with our eBook.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

Ransomware code propagated through phishing and malware attacks that target weak workforce, supplier, and partner access credentials is perhaps the most common type of attack. The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that unauthorized access accounts for 43% of all breaches. Lesson 4: Secure Non-Human Identities .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

The purpose of the survey was to gain insight into the top authentication challenges, user experiences and attitudes with modern authentication, and to determine organizational desires to address authentication challenges with phishing-resistant passwordless authentication. and Canada were surveyed.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2021

Source: Brave website) Sharing an eBook with your Kindle could have let hackers hijack your account. Source: The Hacker News) Attackers behind a phishing campaign exposed the credentials they had stolen to the public Internet, across dozens of drop-zone servers.

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