Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2021

A crucial aspect of cybersecurity was missing from Colonial Pipeline when a criminal hacking group was able to access a shared internal drive and demanded close to $5 million in exchange for the files: multi-factor authentication. The post Benefits of multi-factor authentication appeared first on SecureLink.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Atlassian fixed a critical flaw in its Jira software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 , that could be exploited to bypass authentication. Atlassian has addressed a critical vulnerability in its Jira Seraph software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 (CVSS score 9.9), that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty disclosed technical details of five vulnerabilities that be exploited to hack some Netgear router models. “Team82 disclosed five vulnerabilities in NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RAX30 routers as part of its research and participation in last December’s Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft has blunted the ongoing activities of the Nobelium hacking collective, giving us yet another glimpse of the unceasing barrage of hack attempts business networks must withstand on a daily basis. Nobelium is the Russian hacking collective best known for pulling off the milestone SolarWinds supply chain hack last December.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. Without strong, secure passwords or two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) enabled in an organization or startup, it becomes easy for attackers to access stolen credentials on their web and email servers. Authentication bypass. Shifting exposures. 2009 DBIR page 17) .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication flaw in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication vulnerability affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cisco ESA). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts — mainly on Instagram — that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion , SIM swapping , and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Much more effective authentication is needed to help protect our digital environment – and make user sessions smoother and much more secure. Consider that some 80 percent of hacking-related breaches occur because of weak … (more…). Related: Why FIDO champions passwordless systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya caused a cybersecurity incident at a Canadian gas pipeline, the critical infrastructure sector is on alert. A Canadian gas pipeline suffered a cyber security incident, Canada’s top cyber official and Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya claimed the attack could have caused an explosion. intelligence documents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

“With this level of detail, impersonating network or internal hosts would be far simpler for an attacker, especially since the devices often contain VPN credentials or other easily cracked authentication tokens.” ” concludes the report.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As a response to the Twitter hack that happened last year, the American social networking service put in place the compulsoriness of the MFA (multi-factor authentication) use and also ensured the security keys roll out for all its employees.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. The first signs of the attack came on the morning of Feb. Just attack and destroy.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. To protect against these attacks, businesses need to implement a wide range of strong API security measures such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability scanning. Related: Using employees as human sensors.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. The attacker is sending a user through a proxy and retrieving credentials and/or session tokens by manipulating the end user into thinking they are authenticating into a legitimate resource or application.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a powerful defense from these sorts of attacks, limiting the use of a username and password to the individual who possesses the physical key.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Okta , a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ET: BeyondTrust has published a blog post about their findings. Update, 2:57 p.m.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2019

The disclosure that malicious intruders hacked the computer systems of the South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country’s military forces is not much of a surprise. In many respects, this latest hack, though not specifically attributed, was very predictable.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. Not long after the Twitter hack, O’Connor was quoted in The New York Times denying any involvement. “I

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the IT giant Entrust and started leaking the stolen files. The Lockbit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company and is threatening to leak the stolen files. Entrust blog still down on your left and official statement on your right. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lockbit).

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this blog, we’ll look at how you can minimise the impact of your personal mobile being compromised. What to do if you suspect a hack If you’re worried you may have lost control of your mobile, contact your network provider and ask them to block your SIM Card and send you a new one. How would you know? What do you do?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

Evan Johnson , manager of the product security team at Cloudflare , recently penned an easily digestible column on the Capital One hack and the challenges of detecting and blocking SSRF attacks targeting cloud services. “SSRF has become the most serious vulnerability facing organizations that use public clouds,” Johnson wrote.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Researchers discovered a new flaw in RARlab’s UnRAR utility, tracked CVE-2022-30333, that can allow to remotely hack Zimbra Webmail servers. The vulnerability ultimately allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable Zimbra instance without requiring any prior authentication or knowledge about it.”

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 7, 2022

One of the primary objectives of SharkBot is to start money transfers from hacked devices via the Automatic Transfer Systems (ATS) approach, which circumvents multi-factor authentication measures. Identification and authentication systems are used to impose user identity verification […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Successful exploitation can lead to remote, unauthenticated access to Redis and MongoDB instances via crafted authentication requests. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Below is the list of flaws exploited by the ransomware gang’s affiliate: CVE-2021-27876 : The communication between a client and an Agent requires successful authentication, which is typically completed over a secure TLS communication. It supports multiple authentication schemes: SHA authentication is one of these.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The company also fixed a high-severity post-authentication command injection issue ( CVE-2023-27991 , CVSS score: 8.8) The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute some OS commands. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor. affecting some specific firewall versions. through 5.35.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 5, 2022

Malicious actors began using authentic NHS email accounts in October 2021 after hacking them, and they continued to do so until at […]. The post UK National Health Service Email Accounts Compromised by Hackers to Steal Microsoft Logins appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

“A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco IND could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device.” ” reads the advisory. “This vulnerability is due to improper input validation when uploading a Device Pack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, VMWare).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CVE-2023-46748 F5 BIG-IP SQL Injection Vulnerability – F5 BIG-IP Configuration utility contains an SQL injection vulnerability that may allow an authenticated attacker with network access through the BIG-IP management port and/or self IP addresses to execute system commands. states the advisory.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. Access the below URL where we can find the Moodle current running version.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. mail server responds “OK” = successful access).

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

CVE-2022-26531 : Multiple improper input validation flaws were identified in some CLI commands of some firewall, AP controller, and AP versions that could allow a local authenticated attacker to cause a buffer overflow or a system crash via a crafted payload. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zyxel). To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

VMware is aware of the availability of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for an authentication bypass flaw in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. See blog above for more details. The vulnerability CVE-2023-34051 (CVSS score 8.1)

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Hackology

JUNE 12, 2023

We’ll also see how hackers and law enforcement can hack your biometric security using this attack. iOS devices exhibit stronger authentication security. It works by injecting a checksum error that terminates the authentication process before completion. This can lead them to bypass fingerprint-based authentication systems.

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