CVE-2024-21654 rubygems.org MFA Bypass through password reset function could allow account takeover

Rubygems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Rubygems.org users with MFA enabled would normally be protected from account takeover in the case of email account takeover. However, a workaround on the forgotten password form allows an attacker to bypass the MFA requirement and takeover...

CVE-2024-21654 rubygems.org MFA Bypass through password reset function could allow account takeover

Rubygems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Rubygems.org users with MFA enabled would normally be protected from account takeover in the case of email account takeover. However, a workaround on the forgotten password form allows an attacker to bypass the MFA requirement and takeover...

There is a Ransomware Armageddon Coming for Us All

Generative AI will enable anyone to launch sophisticated phishing attacks that only Next-generation MFA devices can stop The least surprising headline from 2023 is that ransomware again set new records for a number of incidents and the damage inflicted. We saw new headlines every week, which...

Veeam PowerShell Command Fails With: "Unable to connect to the server with MFA-enabled user account."

Challenge When attempting to execute Veeam PowerShell commands, the following error occurs: Unable to connect to the server with MFA-enabled user account. Cause This error occurs when MFA Multi-Factor Authentication is enabled within Veeam Backup & Replication and the account you are logged in as...

instipod DuoUniversalKeycloakAuthenticator challenge information disclosure vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2023-1907 instipod DuoUniversalKeycloakAuthenticator challenge information disclosure vulnerability December 23, 2023 CVE Number CVE-2023-49594 SUMMARY An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the challenge functionality of instipod...

We Asked ChatGPT for 2024 Cybersecurity Predictions but You Should Make These Resolutions Instead

By Caitlin Condon, Senior Manager, Vulnerability Research at Rapid7, and Christiaan Beek, Senior Director, Threat Analytics at Rapid7 It’s that time of year again — time for the annual tradition of cybersecurity predictions. Here at Rapid7 we’ve seen a whole lot of threats and exploited...

CISA Urges Manufacturers Eliminate Default Passwords to Thwart Cyber Threats

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is urging manufacturers to get rid of default passwords on internet-exposed systems altogether, citing severe risks that could be exploited by malicious actors to gain initial access to, and move laterally within, organizations. In an...

Microsoft Warns of Storm-0539: The Rising Threat Behind Holiday Gift Card Frauds

Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it's tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attac...

Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from the CISA Healthcare and Public Health Sector Risk and Vulnerability Assessment

Actions to take today to harden your internal environment to mitigate follow-on activity after initial access. 1. Use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication MFA for all administrative access. 2. Verify the implementation of appropriate hardening measures, and change, remove, or deactivate...

Intercepting MFA. Phishing and Adversary in The Middle attacks

3 of my last 5 business email compromise investigations have involved an Adversary in The Middle AiTM attack. Even the more security-aware people with bolstered Microsoft 365 M365 configurations are coming up blank as to how their comprehensive MFA policies have been bypassed. It’s a technique we...

Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts

Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service AWS STS as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and...

CVE-2023-5970

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

Authentication flaw

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

CVE-2023-5970

CVE-2023-5970 affects SonicWall SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal. The issue is improper authentication that lets a remote authenticated attacker create an identical external-domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass. Affected devices include SMA100 and other SMA families...

CVE-2023-5970

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise

Microsoft observed a surge in cyberattacks targeting identities in 2023, with attempted password-based attacks increasing by more than tenfold in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Threat actors leverage compromised identities to achieve a significant level of access t...

SonicWall SSL-VPN SMA100 Version 10.x Is Affected By Multiple Vulnerabilities

1 CVE-2023-44221 - Post Authentication OS Command Injection VulnerabilityImproper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user, potentially leading...

Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting this long-running threat, concerns have arisen as it appears that Qakbot may still pose a danger...

Code injection

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicio...

CVE-2023-49097 ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicio...