ArcaneDoor - New espionage-focused campaign found targeting perimeter network devices

Updated 2024-04-25 16:57 GMT with minor wording corrections regarding the targeting of other vendors. ArcaneDoor is a campaign that is the latest example of state-sponsored actors targeting perimeter network devices from multiple vendors. Coveted by these actors, perimeter network devices are the...

MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws

The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment NERVE...

Identity in the Shadows: Shedding Light on Cybersecurity's Unseen Threats

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an increasingly complex array of cybersecurity threats. The proliferation of cloud services and remote work arrangements has heightened the vulnerability of digital identities to exploitation, making it imperative for businesses to...

Texting Secrets: How Messenger Apps Guard Your Chats

By Uzair Amir Worried about prying eyes? We explain how messenger apps keep your chats confidential with features like encryption & multi-factor authentication. Learn about security risks & emerging technologies for a safer digital future. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post:...

IBM Security verify Access Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as the Web, mobile, IoT and cloud using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls...

U.S. Federal Agencies Ordered to Hunt for Signs of Microsoft Breach and Mitigate Risks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an emergency directive ED 24-02 urging federal agencies to hunt for signs of compromise and enact preventive measures following the recent compromise of Microsoft's systems that led to the theft of email...

Apple warns people of mercenary attacks via threat notification system

Apple has reportedly sent alerts to individuals in 92 nations on Wednesday, April 10, to say its detected that they may have been a victim of a mercenary attack. The company says it has sent out these types of threat notifications to over 150 countries since the start in 2021. Mercenary spyware i...

How To: Configure Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for NetScaler (ADC) administration.

Configure Multi Factor Authentication MFA to harden security login for NetScaler administration...

There are plenty of ways to improve cybersecurity that don’t involve making workers return to a physical office

As my manager knows, Im not the biggest fan of working in a physical office. Im a picky worker -- I like my workspace to be borderline frigid, I hate dark mode on any software, and I want any and all lighting cranked all the way up. So, know that Im biased going into this, but I also cant get ove...

Google Chrome Beta Tests New DBSC Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Attacks

Google on Tuesday said it's piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials DBSC to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against "some" Google Account users running Chrome Beta – is built with an aim to make it an op...

IBM Security Verify Access Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-16916)

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as the Web, mobile, IoT and cloud using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls...

MFA bombing taken to the next level

Simply put, MFA bombing also known as “push bombing” or “MFA fatigue” is a brute force attack on your patience. Cybercriminals use MFA bombing to break into accounts that are protected by multi-factor authentication MFA. MFA normally requires a user to enter a six-digit code sent by SMS, or...

Key Lesson from Microsoft's Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account

In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they'd been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard sometimes known as Nobelium. The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn't a highly technical hack that exploited a...

Iran-Linked MuddyWater Deploys Atera for Surveillance in Phishing Attacks

The Iran-affiliated threat actor tracked as MuddyWater aka Mango Sandstorm or TA450 has been linked to a new phishing campaign in March 2024 that aims to deliver a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management RMM solution called Atera. The activity, which took place from March 7 through the week o...

Implementing Zero Trust Controls for Compliance

The ThreatLocker® Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform implements a strict deny-by-default, allow-by-exception security posture to give organizations the ability to set policy-based controls within their environment and mitigate countless cyber threats, including zero-days, unseen network...

Username Enumeration

Vantage6 is vulnerable to Username Enumeration. This vulnerability is due to inadequate access controls of sensitive information due to the exposure of API routes /recover/lost and /2fa/lost, which allows unauthorized individuals to trigger password or Multi-Factor Authentication MFA token recove...

Midnight Blizzard Attack Detection in Trellix Helix

Midnight Blizzard Attack Detection in Trellix Helix By Ian Shefferman · March 18, 2024 On January 25, 2024, Microsoft reported a breach of their systems by the Russian APT group Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear. The attackers performed a password spray, compromised a Microsoft...

vantage6 Security Vulnerabilities

vantage6 is vantage6 open source an open source priVAcy preserviNg federalTed leArningG infrastructure for Secure Insight eXchange. A security vulnerability exists in vantage6 versions 4.2.2 and earlier, which stems from the ability to find out which usernames exist by calling API routes that sen...

GHSA-MQ4X-R2W3-J7MR Account Takeover via Session Fixation in Zitadel [Bypassing MFA]

Impact ZITADEL uses a cookie to identify the user agent browser and its user sessions. Although the cookie was handled according to best practices, it was accessible on subdomains of the ZITADEL instance. An attacker could take advantage of this and provide a malicious link hosted on the subdomai...

CVE-2023-25681

LDAP users on IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.5 which are configured to require multifactor authentication can still authenticate to the CIM interface using only username and password. This does not affect local users with MFA configured or remote users authenticating via single sign-on. IBM X-Force ID...