Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Keyboard and mouse apps connect to a server on a desktop or laptop computer and transmit mouse and keyboard events to a remote server. CyRC experts warn of weak or missing authentication mechanisms, missing authorization, and insecure communication vulnerabilities in the three apps. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Android Keyboard).

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience. What is Strong Authentication? The IAM Security Boundary Strong authentication is a critical component of modern-day identity and access management.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. By May 24, 2024 we identified a small number of login attempts using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method,” the company said.

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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 ). Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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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

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. war plans, including strategies to be implemented in event of collapsing diplomatic relations.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

All of these can be extinction-level events. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. . ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

One reason may be that these facilities don’t have to disclose such events when they do happen. “Some utilities are afraid that if their vulnerabilities are shared the hackers will have some inside knowledge on how to hack them,” Arceneaux said. NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS? Information sharing is broken.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

The DHS’s CSRB will review cloud security practices following recent hacks of Microsoft Exchange accounts used by US govt agencies. The CSRB’s mission is to review significant cyber events and ecosystem vulnerabilities and make recommendations based on the lessons learned. reads the advisory published by US CISA.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Major sporting events like the Super Bowl face elevated cyber risks due to the proliferation of connected networks and devices used by venues, teams, vendors, media, and attendees. Fans will overwhelm cellular networks while simultaneously connecting to insecure public Wi-Fi networks at hotels, airports, and fan events.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2024

The attack chain starts with fake application updates for popular software, such as the Chrome browser and the Austrian digital authentication application. Brokewell malware supports “accessibility logging,” it records any device events such as touches, swipes, displayed information, text input, and opened applications.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Salt (aka SaltStack) is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, are a directory traversal issue and an authentication bypass vulnerability respectively. SecurityAffairs – LineageOS, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Salt (aka SaltStack) is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

A hacker who recently offered 700 million LinkedIn records for sale alarmed LinkedIn users and security specialists, but the company insists the data is linked to previously reported scraped data and wasn’t hacked. ” In response, Hodson urged all LinkedIn users to update their passwords and enable two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. The company did not attribute the attack to a specific threat actor.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

In a brazen announcement, the hacking group says it has compromised personal records belonging to a jaw-dropping 560 million users across the two platforms. Its standard operating procedure involves hacking into databases, exfiltrating sensitive information, and monetizing the spoils on Dark Web marketplaces.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. Guessing the brackets right usually means a nice chunk of change.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2022

Risk-based authentication (RBA) is quickly growing in popularity amongst identity and access management solutions. The reason is simple: it allows for improved customer experience by reducing friction in authentication journeys while maintaining appropriate security levels. The classic outcomes of risk in authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2023

Related: Fallout of T-Mobile hack Hackers of modest skill routinely bypass legacy security measures, even two-factor authentication, with techniques such as overlay attacks. Your go-to mobile apps aren’t nearly has hackproof as you might like to believe. And hard data shows instances of such breaches on the rise.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 21, 2021

On February 20 th , we kicked off our very first Human Hacking Conference (HHC). It is an all-encompassing event , offer ing to teach people from all fields – business, security, psychology, and more. The skills and insight gained from the event benefited the attendees in countless ways. . Year Alpha was a massive success.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. Many users of the customer support system are Okta administrators.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The hacked server was used by the company to manage customer information for the Queensland water supplier. SecurityAffairs – hacking, water supplier). The post Threat actors hacked a server of a Queensland water supplier and remained undetected for 9 months appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Post-quantum computing refers to events that follow the development of quantum computers. “With PQ3, iMessage continues to rely on classical cryptographic algorithms to authenticate the sender and verify the Contact Key Verification account key, because these mechanisms can’t be attacked retroactively with future quantum computers.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2023

Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2024

In a sobering update released March 8th, Microsoft has revealed that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard, also tracked as Nobelium, has gained unauthorized access to some of the company's source code repositories and internal systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

. “Pro-Russia hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access via a combination of exploiting publicly exposed internet-facing connections and outdated VNC software, as well as using the HMIs’ factory default passwords and weak passwords without multifactor authentication.” In early 2024, several U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger the flaw to perform a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via HTTP fields observed in the traffic and event logviews. In October, Fortinet confirmed that the critical authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, is being exploited in the wild. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots as proof of the hack. Support engineers are also able to facilitate the resetting of passwords and multi-factor authentication factors for users, but are unable to obtain those passwords.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Okta).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. Those data categories are necessary to protect but most likely not sufficient to keep your organization running smoothly in the event of an outage or cybersecurity crisis. Scheduling?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

Introduction: Hacking forums often double up as underground marketplaces where cybercriminals buy, rent, and sell all kinds of malicious illegal products, including software, trojans, stealers, exploits, and leaked credentials. BlockInput() which can block all mouse and keyboard events in order to disrupt attempts at debugging.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

X-Force discovered the campaign while conducting an incident response activity for a client that had reported slow authentications on the NetScaler install. event=start&target=” triggering the flaw CVE-2023-3519 to write a simple PHP web shell to /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn. ” reads the report published by IBM X-Force. .

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

Check Point Research highlights new trend of forged negative COVID-19 test results and fake vaccine certificates offered on the Darknet and various hacking forums for people seeking to board flights, cross borders, attend events or start new jobs. Read more here: [link]. The post A passport to freedom?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. wevtutil.exe A standard Windows Event Utility tool used to view event logs. Rhysida actors used this tool to clear a significant number of Windows event logs, including system, application, and security logs [ T1070.001 ].

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