The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Czech cybersecurity startup Wultra has raised 3 million from Tensor Ventures, Elevator Ventures, and J&T Ventures to accelerate the development of its post-quantum authentication technology, safeguarding banks and fintech against the coming wave of quantum threats. Southeast Asia is becoming a key market for us.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. 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.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2025

He may even have been able to passively receive Microsoft Windows authentication credentials from employee computers at affected companies. “Dont dismiss risk, and dont let your marketing team handle security disclosures.” But the researcher said he didn’t attempt to do any of that.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

One example is Genesis Market , where customers can search for stolen credentials and authentication cookies from a broad range of popular online destinations. What’s more, relatively few cybercrime shops online offer their users any sort of multi-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2025

The funding will support go-to-market, new staff, customer onboarding and product development. ” Knocknoc orchestrates network infrastructure to remove risk exposure by tying users’ network access to their SSO authentication status. . Sydney, Australia, Mar. Knocknoc is also easy to use with cloud-based infrastructure.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2023

Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. This opens up a real Pandora’s box.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender , Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). One of several current Fudtools sites run by the principals of The Manipulators.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. In this blog post, we take a look at how criminals are abusing Bing and stay under the radar at the same time while also bypassing advanced security features such as two-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As the companies face nine federal lawsuits for failing to protect customer data, it’s abundantly clear hackers have checkmated multi-factor authentication (MFA). But the coup de gras was how easily they brushed aside the multi-factor authentication protections. How they steamrolled multi-factor authentication is a reason for pause.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credentials stolen by info-stealers often end up for sale on cybercrime shops that peddle purloined passwords and authentication cookies (these logs also often show up in the malware scanning service VirusTotal ).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

Authentication sans password is already possible and solutions are on the market from companies like Ping Identity. With passwords passé, it's time to make the leap to better security.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The DOJ emphasized that the sites marketed these tools as "fully undetectable" by antispam software, further fueling large-scale phishing campaigns. Organizations should enforce least privilege access and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all accounts that have it available.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Passkeys and The Beginning of Stronger Authentication madhav Fri, 02/02/2024 - 05:23 How passkeys are rewriting the current threat landscape Lillian, an experienced CISO, surveyed the threat landscape. Lillian knew that a shift in authentication couldn't wait. FIDO is an overarching framework for secure and passwordless authentication.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. Legitimate services use one-time passwords as a second authentication factor. An OTP (one-time password) bot is another service available by subscription.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Phishing tool Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 credentials, it uses adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks to bypass multi-factor authentication. Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. ” reads the report published by Trustwave.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Here’s the story of how bogus reviews on a counterfeit Microsoft Authenticator browser extension exposed dozens of other extensions that siphoned personal and financial data. Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. Image: chrome-stats.com. “It’s great!

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The joint FBI/CISA alert (PDF) says the vishing gang also compiles dossiers on employees at the specific companies using mass scraping of public profiles on social media platforms, recruiter and marketing tools, publicly available background check services, and open-source research.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Misinformation and market manipulation : Deepfake videos of CEOs or government officials making false statements can manipulate stock prices or incite public panic. Traditionally, attackers relied on phishing emails to impersonate executives, but deepfakes now enable fraudsters to conduct real-time video and voice calls that appear authentic.

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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).

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Rhysida went so far as to publish sample files to verify the authenticity of the data, revealing access to a trove of information, including city databases, employee credentials, cloud management files, and even the city’s traffic camera feeds. Another effective solution is to invest in attack surface management (ASM) software.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2025

This caused an upset on the stock markets that cost nVidia and Oracle shareholders a lot of money. No authentication was required, so anybody that stumbled over the database was able to run queries to retrieve sensitive logs and actual plaintext chat messages, and even to steal plaintext passwords and local files.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

BIMI essentially is a carrot-on-a-stick mechanism designed to incentivize e-mail marketers to proactively engage in suppressing email spoofing. That’s because gadgets that bear the Matter logo are more readily available than ever. “Millions of Matter devices have been provisioned and are out in the market,” he noted. identification.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These solutions empower organizations to manage, authenticate, and analyze privileged access, streamlining the granting of credentials with role-based access controls and automated workflows. With these scalable and reliable PAM solutions , organizations of all sizes can address their complex and ever-evolving cybersecurity challenges.

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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 27, 2025

stock markets took a sharp nosedive, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones all shedding significant points within hours of opening. markets are reacting sharply. A sudden shift in global AI leadership could weaken their market position, directly impacting stock valuations. This morning, U.S. The catalyst?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2025

. “MTN Group would like to inform stakeholders that it has experienced a cybersecurity incident that resulted in unauthorised access to personal information of some MTN customers in certain markets. Our core network, billing systems and financial services infrastructure remain secure and fully operational.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Phishing tool Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 credentials, it uses adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks to bypass multi-factor authentication. Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. ” reads the report published by Trustwave.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

“Depending on the scope of an attack, this could impact individual customers, geographic market areas, or potentially the [Lumen] backbone,” Korab continued. ” Lumen told KrebsOnSecurity that it continued offering MAIL-FROM: authentication because many of its customers still relied on it due to legacy systems.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible. Do your best to disable the "secret questions" and other backup authentication mechanisms companies use when you forget your password­ -- those are invariably insecure.

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

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes. As malefactors hone their methods, entities must adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication to secure their digital identities.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This category of awards ranks the worlds top 50 software education products based on authentic reviews from more than 100 million G2 users. ” G2s Best Software Awards rank the worlds best software companies and products based on verified user reviews and publicly available market presence data. Cary, NC, Feb.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 18, 2023

The single sign-on market leader’s Security Center, now generally available, uses Okta Customer Identity Cloud for insights into authentication activity for insights into anomalies, threats and security friction.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I asked if this notice had been sent to everyone, and inquired whether ShareFile offers any form(s) of multi-factor authentication options that customers could use to supplement the security of passwords. We did not enforce a password reset on accounts that are using more stringent authentication controls [emphasis added].

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