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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

CVE-2021-26855 is a “server-side request forgery” (SSRF) flaw, in which a server (in this case, an on-premises Exchange Server) can be tricked into running commands that it should never have been permitted to run, such as authenticating as the Exchange server itself. Microsoft credited researchers at Reston, Va.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

The IT world relies on digital authentication credentials, such as API keys, certificates, and tokens, to securely connect applications, services, and infrastructures. According to BetterCloud, the average number of software as a service (SaaS) applications used by organizations worldwide has increased 14x between 2015 and 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Netgear addressed two critical vulnerabilities, internally tracked as PSV-2023-0039 and PSV-2021-0117 , impacting multiple WiFi router models and urged customers to install the latest firmware. The two flaws are, respectively, a remote code execution issue and an authentication bypass vulnerability. ” reads the advisory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 05:52. State of Multi-Factor Authentication. These changes have urged organizations to re-evaluate the state of existing authentication mechanisms, and many are looking to evolve their authentication approaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

VMware has yet to address the CVE-2021-22048 privilege escalation vulnerability in vCenter Server disclosed in November 2021. VMware warns customers that it has yet to address a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22048 , in the vCenter Server. only) from Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Since April 2021, Russian state-sponsored hackers have exploited vulnerabilities, including Zimbra’s CVE-2022-27924 for injecting commands to access credentials and emails, and JetBrains TeamCity’s CVE-2023-42793 for arbitrary code execution through an authentication bypass.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Profile of participants and applications We collected the data from a sample of the application security assessment projects our team completed in 2021–2023. Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The year 2021 was eventful in terms of digital threats for organizations and individuals, and financial institutions were no exception. share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2%

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

We caught up with The Manipulaters again in 2021, with a story that found the core employees had started a web coding company in Lahore called WeCodeSolutions — presumably as a way to account for their considerable Heartsender income. . “Presumably, these buyers also include Dutch nationals.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Microsoft observed a large-scale phishing campaign that used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to steal passwords, hijack a user’s sign-in session, and bypass the authentication process even when the victim has enabled the MFA. and certificate-based authentication. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. What else do we know about the cause of these incidents?

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Prioritize fixing vulnerabilities exploited by Ghost, such as ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2022

“This allows attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to force domain controllers to authenticate to the attacker using NTLM authentication,” Wiseman said. ” “CVE-2021-36942 was so bad it made CISA’s catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ,” Wiseman said. in certain situations.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

During 2020 and 2021, more than 500 router vulnerabilities were found. The nvd.nist.gov website presents different figures, but they too show a significant increase in the number of router vulnerabilities found in 2020 and 2021. Distribution of router vulnerabilities by priority, 2021 ( download ). Router-targeting malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

Twilio states that threat actors have identified the phone numbers of users of its two-factor authentication app, Authy, TechCrunch reported. This week the messaging firm told TechCrunch that “threat actors” identified data of Authy users, a two-factor authentication app owned by Twilio, including their phone numbers.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2022

Locks that use Bluetooth Low Energy to authenticate keys are vulnerable to remote unlocking. Although Khan demonstrated the hack on a 2021 Tesla Model Y, NCC Group said any smart locks using BLE technology, including residential smart locks, could be unlocked in the same way. Another news article.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

On July 3, the REvil ransomware affiliate program began using a zero-day security hole ( CVE-2021-30116 ) to deploy ransomware to hundreds of IT management companies running Kaseya’s remote management software — known as the Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA). “This was not.”

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In 2021, for example, hackers attempted to manipulate the chemical levels in a Florida water treatment plant by breaching remote access systems. Strong authentication: Each device, no matter how small, should have strong, unique authentication measures to prevent unauthorized access.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I immediately suspected that Experian was still allowing anyone to recreate their credit file account using the same personal information but a different email address, a major authentication failure that was explored in last year’s story, Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do. 9, 2022 and Dec.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 29, 2023

We provided similar support in 2021 with the Emotet botnet , although this time around with a grand total of 6.43M impacted email addresses. Enable multi-factor authentication where supported, at least for your most important services (email, banking, social, etc.)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

Authenticated SSRF Attempt (No CVE Assigned; See Right Link) Zimbra Collaboration Suite SSRF Attempt Organizations should promptly patch and secure affected systems, apply mitigations for targeted CVEs, and restrict outbound access to necessary endpoints.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

14, 2021 Twitter post from Under the Breach’s Alon Gal , the 533 million Facebook accounts database was first put up for sale back in June 2020, offering Facebook profile data from 100 countries, including name, mobile number, gender, occupation, city, country, and marital status. billion active monthly users. According to a Jan.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed). million customers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Matt Donahue is the former FBI agent who founded Kodex in 2021. It is not uncommon to see fake EDR vendors claim the ability to send data requests through Kodex, with some even sharing redacted screenshots of police accounts at Kodex. How are cybercriminals typically gaining access to police and government email accounts?

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Google Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Posted by Harshvardhan Sharma, Information Security Engineer, Google 2021 was another record-breaking year for our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP). 2021 saw some amazing work from the security research community. We paid a total of $8.7 million in rewards, our highest amount yet.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2021

But some of that shine started to come off recently for Ubiquiti’s more security-conscious customers after the company began pushing everyone to use a unified authentication and access solution that makes it difficult to administer these devices without first authenticating to Ubiquiti’s cloud infrastructure. And on Jan.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Multi-factor authentication (MFA): MFA ensures that access to critical systems is granted only after verifying user credentials through multiple channels. Enhanced authentication protocols: Using MFA could have prevented unauthorized access. This significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

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. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

agency , a once popular online service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passcodes (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. KrebsOnSecurity profiled OTP Agency in a February 2021 story about arrests tied to another phishing-related service based in the U.K.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

First surfacing in December 2021 with an extortion demand on Brazil’s Ministry of Health, LAPSUS$ made headlines more recently for posting screenshots of internal tools tied to a number of major corporations, including NVIDIA, Samsung, and Vodafone. ” LAPSUS$ leader Oklaqq a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

China-linked group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. Mandiant researchers reported that China-linked APT group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. ” concludes the report.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

If your address is in there - even if you didn't subscribe to the service - do you want @haveibeenpwned to notify you that they have your address?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who had his freeze thawed without authorization through Experian’s website, and it reminded me of how truly broken authentication and security remains in the credit bureau space. It’s also amazing that this sloppy security I wrote about back in 2017 is still just as prevalent in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In reality, the fraudster initiates a transaction — such as the “forgot password” feature on the financial institution’s site — which is what generates the authentication passcode delivered to the member. To combat this scam Zelle introduced out-of-band authentication with transaction details.

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