Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

.” In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the target’s phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls sent to the victim — including one-time passcodes for authentication, or password reset links sent via SMS. A Scattered Spider phishing lure sent to Twilio employees.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. What we’re seeing is pretty basic things around authentication.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

versions are affected by the vulnerability dubbed BLURtooth which allows hackers to defeat Bluetooth encryption. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, defeating the protocol encryption. Bluetooth 4.0 affects “dual-mode” Bluetooth devices, like modern smartphones.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. It also provides 1GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

According to the Insurance Information Institute , there was a 45-percent increase in identity theft in 2020, and the rapid digital transformation that took place during 2020 would not have helped improve this figure. Authentication also reduces the overall likelihood of compromising information.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. DNS message encryption (control plane) is new. No snooping, no spoofing.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. One such measure is to authenticate the users who can access the server. This could include expensive hardware, or access to sensitive user and/or enterprise security information.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

One of the most security issues is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3382. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and perform actions with admin privileges on the vulnerable device. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon M221 PLCs were reported by Trustwave, three of which have been independently found by the security firm Claroty. This data is encrypted using a 4-byte XOR key, which is a weak encryption method.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

Microsoft researchers discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the firmware of the Netgear DGN-2200v1 series router that can allow attackers to bypass authentication, access stored credentials, and even take over devices. This is a complete and fully reliable authentication bypass.” have been fixed by NETGEAR.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. How TLS works is that there is an encryption point and a decryption point.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. SolarWinds subsequently disclosed to the SEC that threat actors inserted Sunburst into the Orion updates issued to customers between March and June 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

.” Summarizing, the design flaws discovered by the expert are: CVE-2020-24588 : aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames). CVE-2020-24587 : mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys). CVE-2020-26140 : Accepting plaintext data frames in a protected network.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

Researchers identified a vulnerability affecting the Passkey authentication in BR/EDR Secure Simple Pairing in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 Once the bits composing the Passkey were identified during the same pairing session an attack could complete the authenticated pairing process with the responder. CVE-2020-26558. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers discovered two security flaws impacting Oracle’s iPlanet Web Server, tracked as CVE-2020-9315 and CVE-2020-9314, that could cause sensitive data exposure and limited injection attacks. The vulnerability could result in the leak of sensitive data, including configuration information and encryption keys. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. Caturegli said many organizations no doubt viewed a domain ending in.ad He then learned the.ad

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 What appears to have happened is that in order to address "security vulnerabilities on the plug", TP-Link issued a firmware update that killed the HA integration. Looks like @tplinkuk broke it with a firmware update which will now break a bunch of stuff around the house.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Once a user has successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page, the Owawa module captures its credential. The module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. The module verifies the successful authentication by checking that the OWA application is sending an authentication token back to the user.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. As a result, having DNSSEC enabled for its domains bought E-HAWK an additional 48 hours or so with which to regain control over its domain before any encrypted traffic to and from e-hawk.net could have been intercepted.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

“As of June 2020, the FBI has received notifications of Netwalker ransomware attacks on U.S. “Netwalker became widely recognized in March 2020, after intrusions on an Australian transportation and logistics company and a U.S. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

ModiPwn flaw (CVE-2021-22779) in some of Schneider Electric’s Modicon PLCs can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and take over the device. The vulnerability can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms which can lead to native remote-code-execution on vulnerable PLCs.”

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While looking for potentially malicious implants that targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, we identified a suspicious binary that had been submitted to a multiscanner service in late 2020. The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. I had a chance to interview Brian Trzupek , DigiCert’s senior vice president of emerging markets products, at the company’s Security Summit 2020 in San Diego recently.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report Global Edition found that no organization is immune from data security threats, with 49% of global respondents experiencing a breach at some point and 26% having been breached in the past year. Whether it’s stored in a company’s own servers or the cloud – encryption must be used to protect sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The proof-of-concept exploit code for the Kerberos Bronze Bit attack was published online, it allows intruders to bypass authentication and access sensitive network services. The proof-of-concept exploit code for the Kerberos Bronze Bit attack, tracked as CVE-2020-17049 , was published online this week.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Once inside a network, they move laterally to locate and encrypt mission-critical systems; a ransom demand for a decryption key follows. We met at RSA 2020. One popular strain of exploits revolves around hacking known vulnerabilities in the authentication protocol known as Kerboros , which integrates with AD.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269.

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