Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

The three vulnerabilities addressed by the security vendor are: CVE-2021-20021 : Email Security Pre-Authentication Administrative Account Creation: A vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x x allows an attacker to create an administrative account by sending a crafted HTTP request to the remote host.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SP1 for Windows.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

He used the ID to get a job at a fast-food restaurant and to get a Colorado bank account. In 2012, Keirans fraudulently acquired a copy of Woods’ birth certificate from the state of Kentucky using information he found about Woods’ family on Ancestry.com. It wasn’t the first time Keirans had committed car theft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs that is investigating the incident, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Pick strong and complex passwords for all your accounts. Avoid reusing passwords across different services.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else. So, what do you do now, knowing that your account might have been compromised?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Dashlane disadvantages: authentication and affordability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction.” An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. Simon Pope, Director of Incident Response at the?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. The attacks are targeting U.S. ” continues the statement.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

This can be done using a low-privileged account on any Windows SCCM client. Client push installation accounts require local admin privileges to install software on systems in an SCCM site, so it is often possible to relay the credentials and execute actions in the context of a local admin on other SCCM clients in the site. Background.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

Note that account credentials and banking details don’t appear to be part of the proof. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.” Start with security: Make sure you have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

There was a time when stolen gaming accounts were almost treated as a fact of life. Gaming accounts had an essence of innate disposability to them, even if this wasn’t the case (how disposable is that gamertag used to access hundreds of dollars worth of gaming content)? Customer support: compromised accounts all the way down.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. According to Belarusian authorities, XakFor had more than 28,000 registered accounts at the time of seizure that took place last month. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What happened in the 2021 breach When DDC acquired Orchid Cellmark, a British company also in the DNA testing industry, as part of its business expansion in 2012, the company didn't know that it also inherited legacy databases that kept personally identifiable information (PII) in plain text form.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2019

The CVE-2019-0808 resides in the Win32k component, it could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. The issue could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.

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Vipre

MAY 5, 2021

Your security strategy must take into account all the devices that access your network, which means all laptops, smartphones and tablets should be secured. You also should consider encryption and strong authentication policies for added protection. Do you have a patch management policy?

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Forced Authentication [ T1187 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Use Alternate Authentication Material. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Use Alternate Authentication Material. Percent of. organizations. Techniques seen. (in

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

Such information could be useful if you were trying to determine the maiden name of someone’s mother, or successfully answer a range of other knowledge-based authentication questions. Dmitry Lybarsky’s Facebook/Meta account says he was born in March 1963. monthly subscription fee just to view the results. A Sherborn, Mass.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jeremy Kirk on Twitter: "Someone is claiming to have the stolen Optus account data for 11.2 Someone is claiming to have the stolen Optus account data for 11.2 Case Files: Attack like its 1999 (Citibank) in 2012 (Signet/Jared jewelers, Molina Health). Are all these paths following uniform authenticated and authorized controls?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Note that NTLM was designed to perform authentication based on the challenge/response-based authentication system in which a client sends the plaintext username to the domain controller. If the data matches, then the client is allowed to authenticate. Identifying if devices and applications still use NTLM version 1.0

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a result of collaborative efforts, the VTI Principles serve as a comprehensive set of best practices for VPN providers that bolster consumer confidence and provider accountability, promoting wider VPN adoption and access to the technology’s benefits.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

When either on-premise or cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers process Kerberos authentication requests, the leak causes the LSASS process to stop responding and the domain controller will unexpectedly restart. Oglio tracks vulnerability CVE-2023-48022 , rated CVSS 9.8 (out out of 10), and calls it Shadow Ray.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users.

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NopSec

AUGUST 21, 2019

This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Affected Products Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 Windows 8.1

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment routes like endpoints , agentless, web, proxy chaining, and unified authentication. A part of the vendor’s Autonomous Security Engine (ASE) solution, Censornet Cloud Access Security Broker comes integrated with adaptive multi-factor authentication and email and web security. . Identify account takeovers. Censornet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The initial vulnerability that we discovered in October 2012 was related to the “Internet Key Exchange and Authenticated Internet Protocol Keying Modules”. Those modules are used for authentication and key exchange in Internet Protocol security. The problem was that they try to load a DLL which doesn’t exist.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Dashlane has provided similar services to customers since 2012. Additionally, both vendors have easy-to-use mobile applications that make it a breeze to access accounts securely while traveling. Both platforms also support multi-factor authentication and SAML-based single sign-on (SSO). Dashlane and LastPass similarities.

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NopSec

APRIL 30, 2023

Researchers determined that authenticated threat actors could leverage the AutoDiscovery or OWA Exchange endpoints to trigger the deserialization sink. Exploitation is only possible if an attacker can reach port eighty (80) and the PowerShell entry point must use Kerberos for authentication.

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NopSec

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This attack requires the following for successful exploitation; Access to a KDC account to request a service ticket The account must be configured with at least one service principal name (SPN) RC4-MD4 uses a 40 bit key for encryption. While it would be possible to brute force, it’s not practical for attacks on the wire.

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