What are the impacts of FedRAMP® Rev. 5?

The FedRAMP PMO released the final Rev. 5 security control baselines and transition guidance for cloud service providers CSPs who have achieved authorization to operate ATO and those still in the planning stages. All CSPs should review the guidance as soon as possible and start developing a plan...

Yelp: yelp.com XSS ATO (via login keylogger, link Google account)

The summary is as follows: The yelp.com website was found to be vulnerable to a cross-site scripting XSS attack. The vulnerability was caused by the website's improper handling of the "guvo" cookie, which was reflected in the HTML response without proper sanitization. Additionally, a feature on t...

Why Attackers Target the Gaming Industry

Key Takeaways: The gaming industry is a common target for cyberattacks due to its financial success and vast user base. Volumetric DDoS attacks can disrupt service, distract from more serious attacks, and cause financial damage, especially on sites that offer online multiplayer games or real-time...

Weblate: Logging in without knowing credentials after logged out action

A vulnerability was discovered where a user could remain logged in to a website even after logging out, and the next person who accesses the site could be automatically logged in as the previous user without needing their credentials. This could potentially lead to sensitive data exposure and...

Two-Week ATO Attack Mitigated by Imperva

Beginning on February 7, an Imperva-protected account was targeted by an ongoing account takeover ATO attack that lasted for two weeks. On average, attacks last a few hours or a couple days at most, so the length of this attack was an anomaly and underscores the persistence of the attackers. As a...

Nexus: A New Rising Android Banking Trojan Targeting 450 Financial Apps

An emerging Android banking trojan dubbed Nexus has already been adopted by several threat actors to target 450 financial applications and conduct fraud. "Nexus appears to be in its early stages of development," Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy said in a report published this week. "Nexus provid...

Why FedRAMP High Authorization Can Ensure High Cybersecurity Maturity

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program FedRAMP is a U.S. government initiative that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the U.S. federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies. FedRAMP reduces...

ATO Attacks Targeting Financial Services Increased 58 Percent in May. Who Else Needs to Worry?

Account takeover ATO is a form of identity theft that cyber criminals use to get unauthorized access to the accounts of legitimate users through some kind of brute force method such as Credential Stuffing. In 2022, account takeover attacks are on the rise. In June for example, Imperva’s Threat...

The Account Takeover Cat-and-Mouse Game

In an analysis of more than 21 billion application transactions analyzed by the Cequence Security Threat Research Team between June and December of last year, API-based account login and registration transactions increased by 92 percent to more than 850 million. Highlighting the fact that attacke...

New research reveals that one third of all log-in attempts on eCommerce sites are malicious

What do humans and bots have in common? A love for visiting online shopping sites: more than half 57% of all attacks on retail websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, compared to 33% for all other industries. It gets worse: a third of all log-in attempts on retail eCommerce websites are accoun...

Innovative Proxy Phantom ATO Fraud Ring Haunts eCommerce Accounts

A sophisticated fraud ring, dubbed Proxy Phantom, has pushed the boundaries of credential-stuffing attacks with a dynamic account takeover ATO technique that was flooding eCommerce merchants in the third quarter. Researchers at Sift uncovered the group, which is innovating in the realm of...

3.8 Billion Users’ Combined Clubhouse, Facebook Data Up for Sale

On its own, the database of 3.8 billion phone numbers leaked from social-media platform Clubhouse didn’t have much value on the underground market. In fact, they were eventually dumped in a hacker forum for free. But an enterprising threat actor has reportedly combined those phone numbers with 53...

Human Fraud: Detecting Them Before They Detect You

This is Part II of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part I, please click here. In my last blog, we focused on the initial phases of the account-takeover ATO kill chain – recon, weaponization and delivery – and how attackers...

The Underground Economy: Recon, Weaponization & Delivery for Account Takeovers

This is Part I of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part II, please click here. With account takeover ATO attacks on the rise, stopping threat actors in the early phases of the kill chain will help today’s defenders gain an...

Mail.ru: CSRF + XSS leads to ATO

Reflected XSS on dwar.mail.ru via POST parameter formnick There was a Self-XSS issue on Request with no CSRF Protection leading to full Account Takeover due to Insecure Session Cookies...

OpenCart 3.0.36 - ATO via Cross Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title: OpenCart 3.0.36 - ATO via Cross Site Request Forgery Date: 01-09-2021 Exploit Author: Mahendra Purbia Mah3Sec Vendor Homepage: https://www.opencart.com Software Link: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=cms/download Version: OpenCart CMS - 3.0.3.6 Tested on: Kali Linux...

Account Takeover Fraud Losses Total Billions Across Online Retailers

Account takeover ATO attacks are on the rise, and in fact have become a go-to attack of choice cybercriminals of all stripes. In fact, in 2019 alone, ATO attacks cost consumers and e-commerce retailers a whopping $16.9 billion in losses. To be clear, ATO fraud isn’t new, it’s been a concern for...

Popular TP-Link Family of Kasa Security Cams Vulnerable to Attack

A popular consumer-grade security camera made by TP-Link and sold under the Kasa brand has bevy of bugs that open the hardware to remote attacks, such as giving hackers access to private video feeds and the ability to change device settings. The researcher Jason Kent, with Cequence Security,...

Imperva Takes on its Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack on a Single Company

Imperva recently detected and mitigated the largest - and most concentrated - series of brute force ATO account takeover attacks in its history. Over the course of 60 hours from midnight on October 28, our ATO team’s monitoring systems detected more than 44 million ATO attempts on the login page ...

What to Expect in the initial FedRAMP briefing with your Agency Sponsor and the PMO

Most people who have spent any time researching the FedRAMP authorization process know there are two routes for a Cloud Service Provider CSP to become FedRAMP authorized: Agency and Joint Authorization Board JAB. Because of the limited number of CSPs selected each quarter for the JAB authorizatio...