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“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systemsadministration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.
A mid-sized financial institution reported its online banking platform received a "constant barrage" of login attempts using a variety of credential pairs, indicating that the attack was using bots. Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, systemadministrators, and other employees with privileged access.".
The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. Systemadministrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. A proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available.
He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a systemadministrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.
Authentication and password management. Passwords are one of the least safe user authentication methods, yet they are also frequently used for web applications for safeguarding online data. OWASP recommends the following methods: Implement monitoring to identify attacks against multiple user accounts, utilizing the same password.
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It could be a systemadministrator who has access to sensitive defense information and recently just met an attractive fitness influencer on social media (hello, Iran !). Would your CEO normally have you change his bank account information over email? In any case, phishing can lead to some big trouble for organizations.
In these attack scenarios, the attackers send out repeated targeted phishing attacks to employees until someone gets tired of the notifications and gives up their credentials and the one-time password token. FIDO allows users and organizations to access their resources without a username or password using an external security key.
Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's systemadministrators. Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security. But the banks have no choice.
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