Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from the CISA Healthcare and Public Health Sector Risk and Vulnerability Assessment

Actions to take today to harden your internal environment to mitigate follow-on activity after initial access. 1. Use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication MFA for all administrative access. 2. Verify the implementation of appropriate hardening measures, and change, remove, or deactivate...

Intercepting MFA. Phishing and Adversary in The Middle attacks

3 of my last 5 business email compromise investigations have involved an Adversary in The Middle AiTM attack. Even the more security-aware people with bolstered Microsoft 365 M365 configurations are coming up blank as to how their comprehensive MFA policies have been bypassed. It’s a technique we...

Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts

Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service AWS STS as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and...

CVE-2023-5970

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

Authentication flaw

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

CVE-2023-5970

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

CVE-2023-5970

CVE-2023-5970 affects SonicWall SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal. The issue is improper authentication that lets a remote authenticated attacker create an identical external-domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass. Affected devices include SMA100 and other SMA families...

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...

CVE-2023-5970: Improper Authentication

Improper authentication in the SMA100 SSL-VPN virtual office portal allows a remote authenticated attacker to create an identical external domain user using accent characters, resulting in an MFA bypass...

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...

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...

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...

[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...