Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake , but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person's...

Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 安全漏洞

Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is an application from Devolutions Canada Inc. It provides remote desktop management functionality. A security vulnerability exists in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager version 2024.3.17 and prior versions, which stems from incorrect authentication in SQL data...

USDA Releases Success Story Detailing the Implementation of Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA released Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication MFA Success Story: USDA’s FIDO Implementation. This report details how USDA successfully implemented phishing-resistant authenticati...

Imperva and the Secure by Design Pledge: A Commitment to Cybersecurity Excellence

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has introduced a voluntary "Secure by Design Pledge" for enterprise software manufacturers, focusing on improving the security of their products and services. This pledge outlines seven key principles, forming the core of a robust...

Free AI editor lures in victims, installs information stealer instead on Windows and Mac

A large social media campaign was launched to promote a free Artificial Intelligence AI video editor. If the "free" part of that campaign sounds too good to be true, then that's because it was. Instead of the video editor, users got information stealing malware. Lumma Stealer was installed on...

CVE-2024-9999 Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass in Progress WS_FTP Server

In WSFTP Server versions before 8.8.9 2022.0.9, an Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm in the Web Transfer Module allows users to skip the second-factor verification and log in with username and password only...

Mattermost 安全漏洞

Mattermost is an open source collaboration platform from Mattermost, Inc. in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Mattermost version 9.11.2 and prior versions 9.11.x and version 9.5.10 and prior versions 9.5.x. The vulnerability stems from a failure to protect the MFA code from...

PT-2024-26932 · Mattermost · Mattermost

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mattermost versions 9.11.x through 9.11.2 Mattermost versions 9.5.x through 9.5.10 Description: The issue allows an attacker to reuse the MFA code within 30 seconds due to a failure to protect the MFA code against replay attacks...

8 security tips for small businesses

Small businesses and startups are known to face some extra challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. Because they don’t have the size or budget to have a fully-fledged dedicated security team, it often comes down to one person that doesn’t have the time to do everything that is recommended or ev...

Google Cloud to Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication by 2025 for All Users

Google's cloud division has announced that it will enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication MFA for all users by the end of 2025 as part of its efforts to improve account security. "We will be implementing mandatory MFA for Google Cloud in a phased approach that will roll out to all users...

Warning: Hackers could take over your email account by stealing cookies, even if you have MFA

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking over email accounts via stolen session cookies, allowing them to bypass the multi-factor authentication MFA a user has set up. Here's how it works. Most of us don’t think twice about checking the “Remember...

Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft's search engine. A Bing search query for 'Keybank login' currently returns malicious links on the first page, and sometimes as the top search result. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsof...

Okta Verify 安全漏洞

Okta Verify is a lightweight application from Okta that allows you to securely access your apps with two-step verification, ensuring that you and only you have access to your app account. A security vulnerability exists in Okta Verify versions 5.0.2 through 5.3.2, which originates in the Windows...

Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spearphishing Campaign with RDP Attachments

CISA has received multiple reports of a large-scale spearphishing campaign targeting organizations in several sectors, including government and information technology IT. The foreign threat actor, often posing as a trusted entity, is sending spearphishing emails containing malicious remote deskto...

U.S. and Allies Warn of Iranian Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure in Year-Long Campaign

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. have warned about a year-long campaign undertaken by Iranian cyber actors to infiltrate critical infrastructure organizations via brute-force attacks. "Since October 2023, Iranian actors have used brute force and passwor...

CISA, FBI, NSA, and International Partners Release Advisory on Iranian Cyber Actors Targeting Critical Infrastructure Organizations Using Brute Force

Today, CISA—with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the National Security Agency NSA, and international partners—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory Iranian Cyber Actors Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure. This advisory provides known indicators...

Astaroth Banking Malware Resurfaces in Brazil via Spear-Phishing Attack

A new spear-phishing campaign targeting Brazil has been found delivering a banking malware called Astaroth aka Guildma by making use of obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security guardrails. "The spear-phishing campaign's impact has targeted various industries, with manufacturing companies, reta...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Devise-Two-Factor vulnerabilities (USN-7050-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7050-1 advisory. Benoit Ct-Jodoin and Michael Nipper discovered that Devise-Two-Factor incorrectly handled one-time password validation. An attacker could...

Session Hijacking 2.0 — The Latest Way That Attackers are Bypassing MFA

Attackers are increasingly turning to session hijacking to get around widespread MFA adoption. The data supports this, as: 147,000 token replay attacks were detected by Microsoft in 2023, a 111% increase year-over-year Microsoft. Attacks on session cookies now happen in the same order of magnitud...

CVE-2024-45042 Ory Kratos's `highest_available` setting does not properly respect code + mfa credentials

Ory Kratos is an identity, user management and authentication system for cloud services. Prior to version 1.3.0, given a number of preconditions, the highestavailable setting will incorrectly assume that the identity’s highest available AAL is aal1 even though it really is aal2. This means that t...