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Why access management needs to evolve beyond passwords

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Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

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An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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STRRAT RAT spreads masquerading as ransomware

Security Affairs

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. STRRAT RAT was first spotted in June 2020 by G DATA who documented its features.

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Office 365 phishing campaign uses redirector URLs and detects sandboxes to evade detection

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“The campaign uses timely lures relevant to remote work, like password updates, conferencing info, helpdesk tickets, etc.” pic.twitter.com/YpUVEfmlUH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020.

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Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve

Security Affairs

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed an evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by Iranian nation-state actors. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns

Security Affairs

Security experts from cyber-security firm Prevailion reported that TA505 has compromised more than 1,000 organizations. The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts.

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New STRRAT RAT Malware Convinces Believe They’ve Fallen Victim to Ransomware, Researchers Find

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It’s also remote access trojan (RAT), which means that it can still cause harm by collecting browser passwords, allowing remote access, and even logging keystrokes, among many other features. Attackers used compromised email accounts to launch the email campaign.