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Welcome to the final Threat Source newsletter of 2024. Watching "Die Hard" during the Christmas season has become a widely recognized tradition for many, despite ongoing debates about its classification as a Christmas movie. I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea. Whether you like the movie or not...

Vulnerability of Veeam Backup & Replication virtual and physical systems, due to authentication procedures that lack sufficient protection. This allows attackers to alter multi-factor authentication parameters and circumvent existing security restrictions.

The vulnerability of virtual and physical systems managed by Veeam Backup & Replication is related to deficiencies in authentication procedures. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow attackers to alter the parameters of Multi-Factor Authentication MFA and circumvent existing security...

Microsoft MFA AuthQuake Flaw Enabled Unlimited Brute-Force Attempts Without Alerts

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "critical" security vulnerability in Microsoft's multi-factor authentication MFA implementation that allows an attacker to trivially sidestep the protection and gain unauthorized access to a victim's account. "The bypass was simple: it took around an hour ...

CVE-2024-52586

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. A vulnerability has been found starting in version 4.6.0 and prior to version 5.1.0 that allows an attacker to bypass eLabFTW's built-in multifactor authentication mechanism. An attacker who can authenticate locally by knowing o...

CVE-2024-52586 eLabFTW MFA bypass

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. A vulnerability has been found starting in version 4.6.0 and prior to version 5.1.0 that allows an attacker to bypass eLabFTW's built-in multifactor authentication mechanism. An attacker who can authenticate locally by knowing o...

PT-2024-35383 · Elabftw · Elabftw

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: eLabFTW versions 4.6.0 through 5.1.0 Description: A vulnerability has been found in eLabFTW that allows an attacker to bypass the built-in multifactor authentication mechanism. This can be exploited by an attacker who can authenticate locally...

eLabFTW 安全漏洞

eLabFTW is an open source experimental data hosting platform from eLabFTW Open Source. The platform runs on Linux and supports storing a wide range of objects. A security vulnerability exists in eLabFTW versions prior to 4.6.0 through 5.1.0, which stems from a vulnerability that allows an attacke...

Phishing-as-a-Service "Rockstar 2FA" Targets Microsoft 365 Users with AiTM Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about malicious email campaigns leveraging a phishing-as-a-service PhaaS toolkit called Rockstar 2FA with an aim to steal Microsoft 365 account credentials. "This campaign employs an AitM adversary-in-the-middle attack, allowing attackers to intercept user...

Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake , but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person's...

Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 安全漏洞

Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is an application from Devolutions Canada Inc. It provides remote desktop management functionality. A security vulnerability exists in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager version 2024.3.17 and prior versions, which stems from incorrect authentication in SQL data...

USDA Releases Success Story Detailing the Implementation of Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA released Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication MFA Success Story: USDA’s FIDO Implementation. This report details how USDA successfully implemented phishing-resistant authenticati...

Imperva and the Secure by Design Pledge: A Commitment to Cybersecurity Excellence

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has introduced a voluntary "Secure by Design Pledge" for enterprise software manufacturers, focusing on improving the security of their products and services. This pledge outlines seven key principles, forming the core of a robust...

Free AI editor lures in victims, installs information stealer instead on Windows and Mac

A large social media campaign was launched to promote a free Artificial Intelligence AI video editor. If the "free" part of that campaign sounds too good to be true, then that's because it was. Instead of the video editor, users got information stealing malware. Lumma Stealer was installed on...

CVE-2024-9999 Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass in Progress WS_FTP Server

In WSFTP Server versions before 8.8.9 2022.0.9, an Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm in the Web Transfer Module allows users to skip the second-factor verification and log in with username and password only...

Mattermost 安全漏洞

Mattermost is an open source collaboration platform from Mattermost, Inc. in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Mattermost version 9.11.2 and prior versions 9.11.x and version 9.5.10 and prior versions 9.5.x. The vulnerability stems from a failure to protect the MFA code from...

PT-2024-26932 · Mattermost · Mattermost

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mattermost versions 9.11.x through 9.11.2 Mattermost versions 9.5.x through 9.5.10 Description: The issue allows an attacker to reuse the MFA code within 30 seconds due to a failure to protect the MFA code against replay attacks...

8 security tips for small businesses

Small businesses and startups are known to face some extra challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. Because they don’t have the size or budget to have a fully-fledged dedicated security team, it often comes down to one person that doesn’t have the time to do everything that is recommended or ev...

Google Cloud to Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication by 2025 for All Users

Google's cloud division has announced that it will enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication MFA for all users by the end of 2025 as part of its efforts to improve account security. "We will be implementing mandatory MFA for Google Cloud in a phased approach that will roll out to all users...

Warning: Hackers could take over your email account by stealing cookies, even if you have MFA

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking over email accounts via stolen session cookies, allowing them to bypass the multi-factor authentication MFA a user has set up. Here's how it works. Most of us don’t think twice about checking the “Remember...

Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft's search engine. A Bing search query for 'Keybank login' currently returns malicious links on the first page, and sometimes as the top search result. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsof...