PT-2024-14032 · Ibm · Ibm Powersc

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM PowerSC versions 1.3 through 2.1 Description: The issue concerns the lack of implementation of the "HTTP Strict Transport Security" HSTS web security policy mechanism in the MFA component. This mechanism is designed to protect against...

Midnight Blizzard Exploiting Legacy OAuth for Lateral Movement

Summary: Midnight Blizzard exploited a legacy test OAuth application with elevated access due to a common password and lack of multi-factor authentication MFA. The attackers leveraged this access to move laterally within Microsofts network, potentially exfiltrating data and gaining broader contro...

Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs

Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it's currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE...

MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong

In today's digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication MFA as a more robust security measure. MFA...

PT-2024-19001 · Unknown · Rubygems.Org

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Rubygems.org affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a workaround on the forgotten password form of Rubygems.org, which allows an attacker to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication MFA requirement. Normally, users with...

RubyGems Authorization Issues Vulnerability

RubyGems is a Ruby package manager from the RubyGems organization. The product is primarily used to distribute and manage Ruby packages. RubyGems has an authorization issue vulnerability that stems from allowing an attacker to bypass MFA requirements and take over an account...

Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account

Hackers have found a way to gain unauthorized access to Google accounts, bypassing any multi-factor authentication MFA the user may have set up. To do this they steal authentication cookies and then extend their lifespan. It doesn’t even help if the owner of the account changes their password...

Business Logic Vulnerability in dropTopVotedPiece Function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Potential Risk: The dropTopVotedPiece function in the CultureIndex contract allows the dropperAdmin to drop the top-voted piece. While the function checks if the caller is the dropperAdmin, there is a potential business logic vulnerability. The function only...

FBI issues advisory over Play ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA about Play ransomware. According to the FBI, Play made around 300 victims...

MongoDB warns customers about data breach after cyberattack

Database provider MongoDB has posted a security notice about a security incident in which attackers obtained unauthorized access to some of its corporate systems. The targeted system contained customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses among other customer account metadata, including syst...

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...

A personal Year in Review to round out 2023

As youve probably seen by now, Talos released our 2023 Year in Review report last week. Its an extremely comprehensive look at the top threats, attacker trends and malware families from the past year with never-before-seen Cisco Talos telemetry. We have podcasts, long-form videos and even Reddit...

Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Additional Configurations and Review & Confirm

Part 4 - Configuring a Web Application or API: Additional Configurations Now that we have completed the basic information, crawl settings, and default scan configurations, we can shift our attention to additional configurations designed to optimize scanning and provide granular control over how...

23andMe says, er, actually some genetic and health data might have been accessed in recent breach

In October we reported that the data of as many as seven million 23andMe customers were for sale on criminal forums following a password attack against the genomics company. Now, a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has provided some more insight into the data theft. The...

Many major websites allow users to have weak passwords

A new study that examines the current state of password policies across the internet shows that many of the most popular websites allow users to create weak passwords. For the Georgia Tech study, the researchers designed an algorithm that automatically determined a website’s password policy. With...

Okta: Breach Affected All Customer Support Users

When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. 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. But today, Okta revised...

ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data

One of the cybercrime undergrounds more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker USinfoSearch, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Since at least February 2023, a service advertised on Telegram...

How Hackers Phish for Your Users' Credentials and Sell Them

Account credentials, a popular initial access vector, have become a valuable commodity in cybercrime. As a result, a single set of stolen credentials can put your organization's entire network at risk. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, external parties were responsib...

PT-2023-30917 · Warpgate · Warpgate

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Warpgate versions prior to 0.9.0 Description: Warpgate is an open source SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion host for Linux. In affected versions, there is a privilege escalation issue through a non-admin user's account. Limited users can impersonat...

Scattered Spider ransomware gang falls under government agency scrutiny

As you may have read in our November Ransomware Review, Scattered Spider is a relatively new, albeit dangerous, ransomware gang who made headlines in September for attacking MGM Resorts and Caesar Entertainment. For small security teams, one of the most important findings about the group is their...