Adding Multi-Factor Authentication to Employee Logins: A Sound Security Principle

The year 2021 was definitely challenging for security practitioners. The number of data breaches continued to rise; a report issued by the Identity Theft Resource Center stated that the total number of breaches in the first three quarters of 2021 exceeded the total number of events in all of 2020...

Russian state-sponsored cyber actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here In a joint cybersecurity advisory, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the National Security Agency NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA revealed that Russian state-sponsored threat actors target...

SafeDNS: Cloud-based Internet Security and Web Filtering Solution for MSPs

Remote workplace trend is getting the upper hand in 2022. A recent survey by IWG the International Workplace Group determined that 70% of the world's professionals work remotely at least one day a week, with 53% based outside their workplace at least half of the week. Taking this into...

Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends

Summary Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware • Make an offline backup of your data. • Do not click on suspicious links. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Update your OS and software. • Use strong passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. The Federal Bureau ...

Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security

Multi-factor authentication MFA has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsofts inaugural "Cyber Signals" report, only 22 percent of all its Azure Active Directory AD enterprise clients have adopted two-factor authentication 2FA, a...

Attackers Target Intuit Users by Threatening to Cancel Tax Accounts

Just in time for tax season, Intuit is warning customers of a phishing campaign that threatens to close user accounts if they don’t click on a malicious link. The attacks on the accounting-software specialist that many people use for filing U.S. income tax forms comes as phishers overall are...

Low-Detection Phishing Kits Increasingly Bypass MFA

More and more phishing kits are focusing on bypassing multi-factor authentication MFA methods, researchers have warned – typically by stealing authentication tokens via a man-in-the-middle MiTM attack. As MFA continues to see widespread consumer and business adoption – a full 78 percent of...

Hackers Using Device Registration Trick to Attack Enterprises with Lateral Phishing

Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices on a victim's network to further propagate spam emails and widen the infection pool. The tech giant said the attacks manifested through accounts that were not secured...

Deploying Zero Trust Network Access for Secure Application Access? Don’t Forget to Secure Your Employees

Secure your workforce with the help of multi-factor authentication and Akamai's Zero Trust Network Access application in place of a virtual private network VPN...

Imperva Champions Data Privacy Week 2022

As a cybersecurity industry leader, Imperva is working with the National Cybersecurity Alliance NCA as a 2022 Data Privacy Week Champion to promote the need for businesses to prioritize data privacy and protection and the importance of individuals and companies to secure their online data. As par...

Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops

Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and tho...

CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats

In a CISA Insights bulletin the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns that every organization in the United States is at risk from cyber threats that can disrupt essential services and potentially result in impacts to public safety. The warning specifically reminds readers of...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Researchers Bypass SMS-based Multi-Factor Authentication Protecting Box Accounts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug in Box's multi-factor authentication MFA mechanism that could be abused to completely sidestep SMS-based login verification. "Using this technique, an attacker could use stolen credentials to compromise an organization's Box...

keycloak-server-spi-private: ECP SAML binding bypasses authentication flows

A flaw was found in keycloak, where the default ECP binding flow allows other authentication flows to be bypassed. By exploiting this behavior, an attacker can bypass the MFA authentication by sending a SOAP request with an AuthnRequest and Authorization header with the user's credentials. The...

IBM Security Verify Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-08045)

IBM Security Verify Access is a service from IBM USA that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as Web, mobile, IoT, and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls, identity...

IBM Security Verify encryption issue vulnerability

IBM Security VerifyAccess ISAM is a service from IBM USA that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as Web, mobile, IoT, and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls,...

IBM Security Verify Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access is a service from IBM USA that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as Web, mobile, IoT and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls, identity...

Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords

The New York State Office of the Attorney General has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in...

Threat Advisory: E-commerce Bots Use Domain Registration Services for Mass Account Fraud

While researching a recent large-scale bot campaign with CQ Prime Threat Research team lead, Dean Lendrum, we found attackers using domain parking and monetization services to register multiple domains, creating a large number of fake eCommerce accounts per domain. TL; DR ------ Analysis of...