Is MFA a Security Illusion?

A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts...

After enabling MFA and FAS users may be unable to sign to Storefront published app with Anonymous account in other domain

After enabling MFA and FAS users may be unable to sign to Storefront published app with Anonymous account in other domain, with error "Incorrect Pin" Scenario: You may have Storefront, FAS Federated Authentication Service and VDAs in Domain A and there is another Domain Bhaving StoreFront and its...

Using Zero Trust principles to protect against sophisticated attacks like Solorigate

The Solorigate supply chain attack has captured the focus of the world over the last month. This attack was simultaneously sophisticated and ordinary. The actor demonstrated sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to penetrate, expand across, and persist in affected infrastructure, but many...

Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns

On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...

Warning as hackers breach MFA to target cloud services

By Deeba Ahmed According to CISA, it has verified one of the users had their account breached even though they were using "proper multi-factor authentication MFA." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Warning as hackers breach MFA to target cloud services...

Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Also Breached in Massive SolarWinds Hack

The massive state-sponsored espionage campaign that compromised software maker SolarWinds also targeted Microsoft, as the unfolding investigation into the hacking spree reveals the incident may have been far more wider in scope, sophistication, and impact than previously thought. News of...

Cannot Complete Your Request Error only occurs to certain users connecting from ADC with Azure MFA over to Storefront

Certain users are receiving Cannot Complete Your Request Error when accessing site via ADC url and after entering their Azure MFA credentials and user is redirected to Storefront's URL, then the error is observed. On the Storefront Server we see the following Event: Log Name: Citrix Delivery...

How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo’s Multi-Factor Authentication

This is interesting: Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user via OWA. This was unexpected for a few reasons, not least of which was the targeted mailbox was protected by MFA. Logs from the Exchan...

Smartphones are not the problem with MFA security

We've recently seen big attacks play out on prominent technology companies despite their use of smartphone-based multi-factor authentication. These attacks are real, they do happen, and it appears that even the smartphone cannot protect us anymore. While this conclusion may be tempting, it actual...

The evolution of MFA authentication technology and what needs to change next

Authentication attacks are big business, and no one is immune from them. In fact, two men were recently arrested and charged in the Twitter employee account compromise that happened in July 2020. Using employee account credentials, the attackers took over several highly visible celebrity Twitter...

Spotify resets some user logins after hacker database found floating online

A team of researchers working for vpnMentor has found a treasure trove in the form of an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing over 380 million records. The trove contained login credentials and other data belonging to Spotify users. So whats Spotify doing leaving its user data hanging arou...

Majority of Microsoft 365 Admins Don't Enable MFA

Up to 78 percent of Microsoft 365 administrators do not have multi-factor authentication MFA security measures enabled. A recent report by CoreView Research also found that 97 percent of all total Microsoft 365 users do not use MFA, shedding a grim light on the security issues inherent with the...

CVE-2020-15909

SolarWinds N-central up to 2020.1 is described as vulnerable to session hijacking via the JSESSIONID cookie. The JSESSIONID attribute is not validated against multiple sources (e.g., source IP, MFA claims) while the victim remains logged in, allowing an attacker to steal the cookie and reuse it b...

CVE-2020-15909

SolarWinds N-central through 2020.1 allows session hijacking and requires user interaction or physical access. The N-Central JSESSIONID cookie attribute is not checked against multiple sources such as sourceip, MFA claim, etc. as long as the victim stays logged in within N-Central. To take...

Information Disclosure

cas-server-support-otp-mfa is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as the user's secret key is sent as a GET parameter in an img tag when Google Authenticator is used...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...

Zivver: Bypass MFA requirement to send messages

This report correctly discloses a trick by which messages can be sent in spite of apparent MFA requirement. However, the MFA notice was actually intended to be a dismissible alert -- due to some confusion within user story and development process, the client-side 'requirement' was implemented. We...

CVE-2020-0837 ADFS MFA Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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How to Write a Cybersecurity Playbook During a Pandemic

If it feels like you’re constantly revising the draft of your cybersecurity playbook these days, it’s because you probably are. Executing a thorough cybersecurity approach was hard enough before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and forced all of your employees out of the office and into the...

SkyArk - Helps To Discover, Assess And Secure The Most Privileged Entities In Azure And AWS

SkyArk is a cloud security project with two mainscanning modules: 1. AzureStealth - Scans Azure environments 2. AWStealth - Scan AWS environments These two scanning modules will discover the most privileged entities in the target AWS and Azure. The Main Goal - Discover The Most Privileged Cloud...