Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Cisco addressed critical flaws in Identity Services Engine, preventing privilege escalation and system configuration changes. and CVE-2025-20125 (CVSS score of 9.1), in Identity Services Engine (ISE). In a single-node deployment, new devices will not be able to authenticate during the reload time.” Not vulnerable.

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SecureList

APRIL 16, 2025

Instead, they rely on the default severity in the rule, which is often set randomly or based on an engineer’s opinion without a clear process. Detection engineering program Before diving into the program-level approach, we will first present the detection engineering lifecycle that forms the foundation of the proposed program.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2025

law firms for 2 years using callback phishing and social engineering extortion tactics. law firms using phishing and social engineering. “Implement basic cyber hygiene to include being suspicious, robust passwords, multifactor authentication, and installation of antivirus tools.” ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web. The next big thing is passwordless authentication. First and foremost, most solutions rely on connected devices like mobile phones to authenticate users.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Researchers Bypass Advanced Encryption with Social Engineering appeared first on Cybersecurity News. Conducted by researchers Kyle Chadee, Wayne Goodridge, and Koffka Khan from the... The post WPA3 Security Cracked?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Lookout researchers discovered multiple voice phishing groups were using a new phishing kit that closely mimicked the single sign-on pages for Okta and other authentication providers. Each participant in the call has a specific role, including: -The Caller: The person speaking and trying to social engineer the target. “ Annie.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Tenable senior staff research engineer Satnam Narang noted that since 2022, there have been nine elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in this same Windows component — three each year — including one in 2024 that was exploited in the wild as a zero day (CVE-2024-38193).

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2025

This year's findings highlight major detection coverage gaps and systemic detection engineering challenges that impact the effectiveness of enterprise SIEMs in detection and responding to adversary activity. Over-Reliance on Endpoint and Authentication Data: More than 80% of detection logic hinges on endpoint and authentication logs.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

The list of threat actors includes both internal attacker, internal malicious user, and Google engineers. T02 Guessing of Google Cloud Platform credentials" is an action, T04 Authenticated access to Google Cloud Storage bucket is an impact. I think that means the first two are internal to the GCP customer. What can go wrong?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

When, say, an iPhone is getting ready to pair up with Bluetooth-powered device, CTKD’s role is to set up two separate authentication keys for that phone: one for a “Bluetooth Low Energy” device, and one for a device using what’s known as the “Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate” standard.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2024

If you were trying to download the popular Google Authenticator (a multi-factor authentication program) via a Google search in the past few days, you may have inadvertently installed malware on your computer. Fake site leads to signed payload hosted on Github The fraudulent site chromeweb-authenticators[.]com

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Some SMS phishing messages told employees their VPN credentials were expiring and needed to be changed; other phishing messages advised employees about changes to their upcoming work schedule.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2025

.” Bob Hopkins at Immersive Labs called attention to the CVE-2025-21311 , a 9.8 “critical” bug in Windows NTLMv1 (NT LAN Manager version 1), an older Microsoft authentication protocol that is still used by many organizations. Unpatched.ai “It may be the first of many in 2025.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

“Contact information acquired through social engineering schemes could also be used to impersonate contacts to elicit information or funds.” Always confirm authenticity before responding, and contact security officials or the FBI if uncertain. Enable and protect two-factor authentication and never share OTP codes.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

“This is social engineering at the highest level and there will be failed attempts at times. “In terms of overall social engineering attacks, the more you have a relationship with someone the more they’re going to trust you,” Donahue said. Don’t be discouraged.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

The IT world relies on digital authentication credentials, such as API keys, certificates, and tokens, to securely connect applications, services, and infrastructures. This requires going beyond traditional practices and involving developers, security engineers, and operations in detection, remediation, and prevention.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

” The perpetrators focus on social engineering new hires at the targeted company, and impersonate staff at the target company’s IT helpdesk. Consider using a formalized authentication process for employee-to-employee communications made over the public telephone network where a second factor is used to.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Duo’s Risk-Based Authentication (RBA) helps solve this by adapting MFA requirements based on the level of risk an individual login attempt poses to an organization. Risky authentications are stepped-up, and users are required to authenticate with a more secure factor. Will users get blocked?

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Google's cloud division has announced that it will enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users by the end of 2025 as part of its efforts to improve account security. "We

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. Attacks on identity verification systems Bypassing biometric security: Many organizations use facial and voice recognition for authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As the companies face nine federal lawsuits for failing to protect customer data, it’s abundantly clear hackers have checkmated multi-factor authentication (MFA). But the coup de gras was how easily they brushed aside the multi-factor authentication protections. How they steamrolled multi-factor authentication is a reason for pause.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Remote attackers could bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands by exploiting a flaw in secMiddleware , which only validates POST requests. “the threat intel search engine LeakIX reported that 21,761vulnerable CyberPanel instances were exposed online, and nearly half (10,170) were in the United States.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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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. He said that on Oct 2.,

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

While the enforcement of multi-factor authentication (MFA) makes logging in more secure, it inevitably runs the risk of adding steps to a process users already find annoying. While this may avoid authentication fatigue, it certainly risks and may even violate some security standards.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 28, 2025

The Duo difference: End-to-end phishing resistance For too long, defenders have focused solely on login protection with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Seamless Help Desk Verification: A new tech partnership enabling identity verification for help desks, safeguarding against social engineering attacks.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2025

The phishing game has evolved into synthetic sabotage a hybrid form of social engineering powered by AI that can personalize, localize, and scale attacks with unnerving precision. At the heart of many of these kits are large language models (LLMs) trained or fine-tuned specifically for social engineering tasks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

Twilio states that threat actors have identified the phone numbers of users of its two-factor authentication app, Authy, TechCrunch reported. This week the messaging firm told TechCrunch that “threat actors” identified data of Authy users, a two-factor authentication app owned by Twilio, including their phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The vulnerability is a scripting engine memory corruption issue that could lead to arbitrary code execution. “This attack requires an authenticated client to click a link in order for an unauthenticated attacker to initiate remote code execution.” dll), which is no longer supported, as an initial access vector.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credentials stolen by info-stealers often end up for sale on cybercrime shops that peddle purloined passwords and authentication cookies (these logs also often show up in the malware scanning service VirusTotal ). USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

.” In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the target’s phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls sent to the victim — including one-time passcodes for authentication, or password reset links sent via SMS.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Additionally, these conventional tools lack the contextual awareness needed to identify sophisticated social engineering tactics employed by AI-powered phishing campaigns. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) : Enforce robust MFA protocols to add an extra layer of security.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 2, 2024

We are excited to have partnered closely with Microsoft in the co-development of Microsoft Entra ID External Authentication Methods, available in Public Preview May 2024! External Authentication Methods (EAM) enables frictionless integration of Duo’s full security feature set.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

Beside stealing usernames, passwords and circumventing two factor authentication, we identified malicious code capable of performing additional nefarious actions unbeknownst to the victim. After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information. Researchers from Gen Digital who discovered the threat, believe it is in its early development phase.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A prime example is multi-factor authentication (MFA), a security process that requires users to verify their identity in two or more ways, such as a password, a code sent to their phone, or a fingerprint. Other Ways Threat Actors Exploit Human Behaviour In addition to fatigue attacks, malefactors weaponise social engineering.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Rather, this attack targets the victim’s digital identity, taking advantage of the widespread shift toward cloud-based enterprise storage and the fact that browser-based authentication is the primary gateway to accessing these resources.

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