The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A look back at the cybersecurity landscape in 2023 rings all-too familiar: cyber threats rapidly evolved and scaled up , just as they have, year-to-year, for the past 20 years. Eyal Benishti , CEO, IRONSCALES Benishti Generative AI (GenAI) reshaped cybersecurity in 2023. What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024?

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Figure 1: authentication success rate with passkey vs password. They are designed to enhance online security for users.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Booking.com said it now requires 2FA , which forces partners to provide a one-time passcode from a mobile authentication app (Pulse) in addition to a username and password. Booking.com did not respond to questions about that, and its current account security advice urges customers to enable 2FA. million phishing attempts in 2023.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach. Okta provided additional details about the October 2023 breach and revealed additional threat actor malicious activities. On Thursday, October 19, Okta advised customers of a security incident.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. emphasized collective action and individual accountability. Protect IT."

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. In March 2023, Microsoft published guidance for investigating attacks exploiting the patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515 (CVSS score 10), in its Confluence Data Center and Server software. The flaw CVE-2023-22515 is a privilege escalation vulnerability that affects Confluence Data Center and Server 8.0.0 and later.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Researchers publicly released the exploit code for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198. ai publicly released the exploit code for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected system.”

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

The vulnerability allows a successful attacker to easily take over users’ accounts without any interaction. CVE-2023-7028 ( CVSS score 10 out of 10): an issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 in which user account password reset emails could be delivered to an unverified email address.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After 1Password, BeyondTrust, and Cloudflare detected unauthorized log-in attempts to their in-house Okta administrator accounts, they reported the incidents to Okta who started an investigation. To gain access to that service account, the attacker compromised an Okta employee. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta said the intrusion allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from fewer than one percent of its 18,000+ customers. When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. In a previous disclosure on Nov.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

September 5, 2023 Atlas VPN Leaks Users’ IP Addresses Type of attack: Zero-Day Vulnerability, a new vulnerability that is often difficult to fix since no patch is available on the market yet. Alarmingly, this API lacks any form of authentication, allowing virtually anyone, even a malicious website you might visit, to send commands to the CLI.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers. Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

GitHub recently announced that it will require all users who contribute with code on the platform to enable two-factor authentification over the course of 2023. Two-factor authentication (2FA) makes accounts safer by adding an extra step that requires entering a one-time code during the login process.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2023

Following criticism, Google has decided to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Google Authenticator cloud backups. The search giant recently introduced a feature that allows users back up two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) tokens to the cloud, but the lack of encryption caused some commentators to warn people off using it.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

10 and over 250 reviews, Duo is honored to share that we won the 2023 TrustRadius Top Rated Award for Authentication. Duo’s Multi-Factor Authentication solution combines multiple authentication factors to provide simple ways to protect users. With a score of 9.3/10 My only issue is that we did not do it sooner.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) , starting in mid-2024. Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts. Get a free trial below.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus , while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. By stealing these tokens, attackers can often reuse them in their own web browser, and bypass any authentication normally required for that account.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

See the Top Patch and Vulnerability Management tools October 23, 2023 Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Under Active Attack Type of attack: Active exploitation of the high-risk Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability ( CVE-2023-4966 ) disclosed on October 10, 2023 and now known as Citrix Bleed.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 21, 2023

A security shortcoming in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Open Authorization (OAuth) process could have been exploited to achieve full account takeover, researchers said. California-based identity and access management service Descope, which discovered and reported the issue in April 2023, dubbed it nOAuth.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is released for the 'Citrix Bleed' vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4966, that allows attackers to retrieve authentication session cookies from vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. [.]

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Group-IB recently uncovered a significant security breach involving ChatGPT accounts. These compromised accounts pose a serious risk to businesses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, which has experienced the highest concentration of ChatGPT credentials for sale.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

Microsoft is warning of cyber attacks exploiting a recently patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397 (CVSS score: 9.8). Microsoft published guidance for investigating attacks exploiting recently patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397. reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

OpenAI addressed multiple severe vulnerabilities in the popular chatbot ChatGPT that could have been exploited to take over accounts. OpenAI addressed multiple severe vulnerabilities in ChatGPT that could have allowed attackers to take over user accounts and view chat histories. Attack Flow: 1. Victims visit the legitimate link.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 4, 2022

GitHub announced today that all users who contribute code on its platform (an estimated 83 million developers in total) will be required to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts by the end of 2023. [.].

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

From March 19, users of Twitter won’t be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. You can still use the authentication app and security key methods. To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Twitter has announced that the platform will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers. To date, Twitter has offered three methods of 2FA : text message, authentication app, and security key. “At that time, accounts with text message 2FA still enabled will have it disabled.

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Bleeping Computer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) as an additional protection measure on their accounts by the end of 2023. [.].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage. I have fixed your RIPE admin account security.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

August 28, 2023 Ransomware Group Exploits Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability In July, Citrix released a patch for a critical remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2023-3519 ), which affected the company’s NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products and carried a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scale.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

SAP April 2023 security updates include a total of 24 notes, 19 of which are new vulnerabilities. CVE-2023-28765 : An attacker with basic privileges in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Promotion Management) – versions 420, 430, can exploit the issue to access to lcmbiar file and further decrypt the file.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

The other vulnerabilities impacting Network Attached Storage (NAS) discovered by WatchTowr code execution, buffer overflow, memory corruption, authentication bypass, and XSS issues impacting the security of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices across different deployment environments.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 5, 2024

2023 ForgeRock Breach Report underscores the need for AI-powered identity We are excited to announce the release of our fifth annual ForgeRock Identity Breach Report. No wonder healthcare is the most highly targeted sector, accounting for 36% of all breaches.

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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. It is a program that must coordinate people, tools, and processes, and also account for human error. In January 2023, CircleCI was breached.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

August 21, 2023 Ivanti finds another vulnerability For the third time in a month, Ivanti’s has reported a vulnerability in a mobile device management platform. The latest — CVE-2023-38035 — affects the Sentry secure mobile gateway, part of Ivanti’s UEM platform and is being exploited as a zero-day.

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