Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 22, 2023

At AWS re:Invent, Shira Rubinoff talks with Graeme Speak of BankVault Cybersecurity about passwordless authentication. The post AWS re:Invent 2023: Passwordless Authentication appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. Experts warn that biometric authentication alone is not foolproof.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 1, 2019

Early last year, I announced that I was making HIBP data on government domains for the UK and Australia freely accessible to them via searches of their respective TLDs. The Spanish government followed a few months later with each getting unbridled access to search their own domains via an authenticated API.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 12, 2023

Over the past couple of years, increasingly more sysadmins have abandoned the more “traditional”, hands-on, approach to access and identity management in favor of IAG (Identity and Access Governance).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2023

This week: A Chinese-based hacking group has used stolen authentication tokens to breach government email accounts. The post The Week in Security: Chinese hackers breach government email, AI models easily poisoned appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Authentication remains one of the most painstaking challenges faced by CISOs in organizations large and small. Authentication a significant obstacle for modern CISOs. Authentication continues to test CISOs for several reasons, with its modern definition being the first to address, Netskope CISO Lamont Orange tells CSO.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

This is especially alarming for industries that conduct high-value transactions online, such as banking, healthcare, government, etc., To safeguard users’ identities and critical information, the government stepped in to enforce strict security measures. Authentication also reduces the overall likelihood of compromising information.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 8, 2024

CSF) release underscores the urgency of addressing evolving threats and now emphasizes the importance of governance in Cybersecurity. Salt Security, focusing on API Posture Governance, provides an API risk management platform that seamlessly aligns with the updated NIST CSF guidelines. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (CSF)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. By redirecting the pointer to the Line Dancer interpreter, attackers can interact with the device through POST requests without authentication.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors. From these instances the group reaches out through Teams messages and persuades targets to approve multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts initiated by the attacker.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2023

The affected Norwegian ministries used it to manage mobile devices used by government employees and grant remote access to government systems and applications. Ivanti EPMM is a mobile management software engine that enables IT to set policies for mobile devices, applications, and content. releases 11.10, 11.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 12, 2023

However, the BJP led government has announced that the breach news broadcasted on certain private news channels was not true and the data of all the vaccinated populace was totally secure from the access of threat actors. The post Indian CoWIN data breach not true says government appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 19, 2023

The Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Transparent Tribe used a two-factor authentication (2FA) tool used by Indian government agencies as a ruse to deliver a new Linux backdoor called Poseidon.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added single-factor authentication to the short list of "exceptionally risky" cybersecurity practices that could expose critical infrastructure as well as government and the private sector entities to devastating cyberattacks.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to use the PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) in addition to bypassing Duo 2FA to compromise an unpatched Windows machine and gain administrative privileges. This activity was documented as early as May, 2021.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. The last stage malware is the PHP-based SYS01stealer malware which is able to steal browser cookies and abuse authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim’s Facebook account.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. These infected websites host a PHP script which displays a seemingly authentic update. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks. The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. No customer action is required.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ivanti warned customers of a new critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38035. The zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-35078 was exploited by threat actors in recent attacks against the ICT platform used by twelve ministries of the Norwegian government.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a security tool used by various organizations to protect user credentials, or the username and password. MFA has been recommended, or required, by governments and has grown in popularity as a measure to quickly add a layer of security, especially if credentials are compromised as part of a phishing attack.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world. TAG has observed four different groups exploiting the same bug to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

government agencies in years won access to Microsoft’s secret source code for authenticating customers, potentially aiding one of their main attack methods. The post SolarWinds hackers studied Microsoft source code for authentication and email appeared first on CyberNews. The hackers behind the worst intrusion of U.S.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The vulnerability provides attackers with the capability to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and hijack legitimate user sessions, and is said to be very easy to exploit. Customers using Citrix-managed cloud services or Citrix-managed Adaptive Authentication products are not impacted. NetScaler ADC 13.1-FIPS FIPS before 13.1-37.164

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a US government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to exploit certain authentication workflows in combination with PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) to gain administrative access to Windows domain controllers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government (Part 1 of 2) sparsh Tue, 11/28/2023 - 05:20 Bruce Schneier recently blogged : A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. But “negligent security practices” are not a new concern for the US Government.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Over the next five years, the UK government will invest heavily in cybersecurity, including new authentication methods such as Fast IDentity Online (FIDO).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s the difference between Basic and Modern Authentication? Basic Authentication…. The post CISO Urges Switch to Microsoft Exchange Online Modern Authentication: What You Need to Know appeared first on Nuspire.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 24, 2021

How FIDO 2 authentication can help achieve regulatory compliance. Businesses are governed by an increasingly complex network of regulations, jurisdictions, and standards which dictate security and privacy requirements. One common denominator in all regulations is the need for strong authentication. Thu, 06/24/2021 - 07:22.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2022

The post Banking Trojan in Google Play App Store—‘2FA Authenticator’ drops Vultur RAT appeared first on Security Boulevard. An Android app has been found to drop the Vultur remote access Trojan. This “dangerous” and “advanced” banking malware was in the Google Play store. How did that happen?

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Hackers that the United States linked to Russian Intelligence used a gimmicked update to the SolarWinds IT management software and other vectors to take over a variety of government agencies and private organizations. The post Another SolarWinds lesson: Hackers are targeting Microsoft authentication servers appeared first on SC Media.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

The practices mentioned in the document are not to be used by organizations in the government and the private sector as they are able to expose them to unnecessary risks. The post CISA Advises Users to Not Use Single-factor Authentication on Internet-exposed Systems appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Aside from […].

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It seems like not a day goes by where we don’t hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools , cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? said daily. said daily. Table of Contents.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. Congress wants answers. Master signing keys are not supposed to be left around, waiting to be stolen.

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