Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise

Microsoft observed a surge in cyberattacks targeting identities in 2023, with attempted password-based attacks increasing by more than tenfold in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Threat actors leverage compromised identities to achieve a significant level of access t...

SonicWall SSL-VPN SMA100 Version 10.x Is Affected By Multiple Vulnerabilities

1 CVE-2023-44221 - Post Authentication OS Command Injection VulnerabilityImproper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user, potentially leading...

Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting this long-running threat, concerns have arisen as it appears that Qakbot may still pose a danger...

Code injection

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicio...

CVE-2023-49097 ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicio...

CVE-2023-49097 ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicio...

GHSA-2WMJ-46RJ-QM2W ZITADEL Account Takeover via Malicious Host Header Injection

Impact ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email, the secret code c...

ZITADEL Account Takeover via Malicious Host Header Injection

Impact ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email, the secret code c...

[20240201] - Core - Insufficient session expiration in MFA management views

The MFA management features did not properly terminate existing user sessions when a user's MFA methods have been modified...

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...

Product Walkthrough: Silverfort's Unified Identity Protection Platform

In this article, we will provide a brief overview of Silverfort's platform, the first and currently only unified identity protection platform on the market. Silverfort's patented technology aims to protect organizations from identity-based attacks by integrating with existing identity and access...

U.S. Cybersecurity Agencies Warn of Scattered Spider's Gen Z Cybercrime Ecosystem

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have released a joint advisory about a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider that's known to employ sophisticated phishing tactics to infiltrate targets. "Scattered Spider threat actors typically engage in data theft for extortion using multipl...

CVE-2023-4612 MFA bypass in Apereo CAS

Improper Authentication vulnerability in Apereo CAS in jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getRemoteAddr method allows Multi-Factor Authentication bypass.This issue affects CAS: through 7.0.0-RC7. It is unknown whether in new versions the issue will be fixed. For the date of publication there...

PT-2023-29853 · Apereo · Apereo Cas

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apereo CAS versions through 7.0.0-RC7 Description: The issue is related to an Improper Authentication vulnerability in the jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getRemoteAddr method, which allows Multi-Factor Authentication bypass. There is...

CVE-2023-45140

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

Authorization

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

CVE-2023-45140 Group-based JIT MFA bypass on scp and sftp in The Bastion

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

CVE-2023-45140 Group-based JIT MFA bypass on scp and sftp in The Bastion

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

CVE-2023-45140

CVE-2023-45140 describes a bypass in The Bastion where SCP/SFTP plugins do not honor group-based JIT MFA, allowing a group access with MFA enforced to establish a connection without an extra factor. This affects per-group-based JIT MFA; Immediate MFA, per-plugin JIT MFA, and per-account JIT MFA a...

What Is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) ?

Unraveling the Mysteries Behind the Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA Paradigm Digital protection strategies have traditionally relied heavily on the concept of trust. However, these conventional notions, which assume a considerable measure of security within an organization's connectivity sphere,...