Remove okta-data-breach-users-exposed
article thumbnail

All Customer Support System Users Exposed in The Okta Data Breach

Heimadal Security

The ongoing Okta data breach investigation brings new details to light. The company announced that hackers have accessed data from every user of Okta’s customer support system.

article thumbnail

Okta’s Breach Highlights Risk of Putting Crown Jewels in the Cloud

Security Boulevard

Identity credentials and source code are critical assets that can create major risks for your organization when exposed by breaches of third-party cloud service companies that provide identity management and software composition analysis. Making matters worse, a known Ransomware group claimed credit for the breach.

Risk 122
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. According to an Aug.

article thumbnail

LAPSUS$ Cyber Crime Spree Nabs Microsoft, Okta, NVIDIA, Samsung

eSecurity Planet

The LAPSUS$ threat group has had an attention-grabbing month, snaring high-profile victims like Microsoft, Okta , NVIDIA, Samsung and others. On March 22, Microsoft confirmed a substantial breach by the LAPSUS$ hacking group. The Victims: Microsoft, Okta, and Many Others. It’s unknown what data was compromised.

article thumbnail

GUEST ESSAY: Why CISOs absolutely must take authentication secrets much more seriously

The Last Watchdog

However, unlike passwords intended for a single user, secrets must be distributed. Someone stole its source code which exposed development credentials and keys. Later in December, LastPass revealed that an attacker had used the stolen source code to access and decrypt customer data. In January 2023, CircleCI was breached.

article thumbnail

A Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group

Krebs on Security

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. In a blog post published Mar.

article thumbnail

Remote Desktop: You’re Opening the Floodgates for Hackers

Security Boulevard

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . RDP is the Microsoft proprietary client-server protocol that allows users to connect to remote systems over the network. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern. What is RDP? How are they attacking it?