A week in security (March 4 – March 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Patch now! VMWare escape flaws are so serious even end-of-life software gets a fix Update now! JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability abused at scale PetSmart warns customers of credential stuffing attack Predator spyware vendor banned in US ALPHV ransomware gang fakes o...

PetSmart warns customers of credential stuffing attack

Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent credential stuffing attack. Credential stuffing relies on the re-use of passwords. Take this example: User of Site A uses the same email and password to login to Site B. Site A gets compromised and those login details are...

Wallarm’s Crusade Against Rising Credential Stuffing Threats

Credential Stuffing, a vital yet often overlooked aspect of cybersecurity, needs to be addressed with urgency. An alarmingly large segment of the population engages in the risky habit of using the same password for various accounts. This behavior parallels the risk of using a universal key for...

Stopping Credential Stuffing Attacks: We Need to Do Better

Do you know what 23andMe, Jason's Deli, North Face, and Hot Topic have in common? They've all been breached by successful credential stuffing attacks in the last year! An attack type that has gained prominence in recent years is credential stuffing. In this blog, we will explore what credential...

Jason’s Deli Data Breach Exposes 344,000 Users in Credential Stuffing Attack

By Waqas The data breach occurred a few days before Christmas on December 21, 2023, but the details have only been revealed now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Jasons Deli Data Breach Exposes 344,000 Users in Credential Stuffing Attack...

Joomla! vulnerability is being actively exploited

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a vulnerability for the Joomla! Content Management System CMS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agencies need to...

23andMe blames “negligent” breach victims, says it’s their own fault

In a surprising move, in a letter to legal representatives of victims of the recent 23andMe data breach, the company has laid the blame at the feet of victims themselves. 23andMe even goes as far as to claim that this wasn’t a data breach at 23andMe at all. The reasoning: “… unauthorized actors...

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...

IT administrators’ passwords are awful too

The key is under the doormat by the front door. The administrator password is "admin". These are easy to remember clues when you are providing entrance to someone you trust. The problem is that they are also enormously easy to guess. It’s where we would expect an unwanted visitor to check first,...

[updated] 23andMe user data stolen, offered for sale

Information belonging to as many as seven million 23andMe customers has been put up for sale on criminal forums following a credential stuffing attack against the genomics company. On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained...

Are You Willing to Pay the High Cost of Compromised Credentials?

Weak password policies leave organizations vulnerable to attacks. But are the standard password complexity requirements enough to secure them? 83% of compromised passwords would satisfy the password complexity and length requirements of compliance standards. That's because bad actors already have...

Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs

Tyler Starks, Christiaan Beek, Robert Knapp, Zach Dayton, and Caitlin Condon contributed to this blog. Rapid7’s managed detection and response MDR teams have observed increased threat activity targeting Cisco ASA SSL VPN appliances physical and virtual dating back to at least March 2023. In some...

The most hated man on the internet. Lessons to learn

A while ago I was scouring Netflix and stumbled across the 2022 The most hated man on the internet docuseries. What’s that all about then? The show is about Hunter Moore and his isanyoneup.com website Wikipedia article, where abhorrent people uploaded naked / pornographic images, intended to sham...

Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts

An ongoing campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts has led to victims losing control of their accounts, or being locked out following repeated login attempts. Whether the attackers are using brute force methods or credential stuffing isn't known, but because some victims are being being locked out...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API2:2023 Broken Authentication

Welcome to the 3rd post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API2:2023 Broken Authentication. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and wha...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

The one and only password tip you need

OK, its time for me to keep a promise. Back in October 2022, I wrote an article called Why almost everything we told you about passwords was wrong. The article summarizes how a lot of what youve been told about passwords over the years was either wrong change your passwords as often as your...

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...

Siemens Desigo PXC and DXR Devices Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CVE-2022-24044)

A vulnerability has been identified in Desigo DXR2 All versions V01.21.142.5-22, Desigo PXC3 All versions V01.21.142.4-18, Desigo PXC4 All versions V02.20.142.10-10884, Desigo PXC5 All versions V02.20.142.10-10884. The login functionality of the application does not employ any countermeasures...

Trading Convenience for Credentials

Tap. Eat. Repeat. Regret? Using food or grocery delivery apps is great. It really is. Sure, there’s a fee, but when you can’t bring yourself to leave the house, it’s a nice treat to get what you want delivered. As a result, adoption of food apps has been incredibly fast and they are now a...