No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks

The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn't changed: stolen credentials. Identity-based attacks remain a dominant...

Iran-Linked Password-Spraying Campaign Targets 300+ Israeli Microsoft 365 Organizations

An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three distinct attack waves that took place on March 3...

Reverse Online Guessing Attacks on PAKE Protocols

Though not yet widely deployed, password-authenticated key exchange PAKE protocols have been the subject of several recent standardization efforts, partly because of their resistance against various guessing attacks, but also because they do not require a public-key infrastructure PKI, making the...

CVE-2025-25236

Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM contains an observable response discrepancy vulnerability. A malicious actor may be able to enumerate sensitive information such as tenant ID and user accounts that could facilitate brute-force, password-spraying or credential-stuffing attacks...

Brute-Force Attack

ethycafides is vulnerable to brute-force attack. The vulnerability is due to the absence of specific anti-automation controls on the Admin UI login endpoint, which allows an attacker to perform credential testing attacks such as credential stuffing or password spraying to gain unauthorized access...

EUVD-2024-1910

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

EUVD-2022-28959

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

EUVD-2024-52685

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2025-57815

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the Fides Admin UI login endpoint relies on a general IP-based rate limit for all API traffic and lacks specific anti-automation controls designed to protect against brute-force attacks. This could allow attackers to...

CVE-2025-57815 Fides Lacks Brute-Force Protections on Authentication Endpoints

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the Fides Admin UI login endpoint relies on a general IP-based rate limit for all API traffic and lacks specific anti-automation controls designed to protect against brute-force attacks. This could allow attackers to...

CVE-2025-57815 Fides Lacks Brute-Force Protections on Authentication Endpoints

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the Fides Admin UI login endpoint relies on a general IP-based rate limit for all API traffic and lacks specific anti-automation controls designed to protect against brute-force attacks. This could allow attackers to...

Brute Force

Overview ethyca-fides is an Open-source ecosystem for data privacy as code. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Brute Force via insufficient protections on the authentication process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to user accounts by performing automated credential...

Over 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID Accounts Targeted Using Open-Source TeamFiltration Tool

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new account takeover ATO campaign that leverages an open-source penetration testing framework called TeamFiltration to breach Microsoft Entra ID formerly Azure Active Directory user accounts. The activity, codenamed UNKSneakyStrike by Proofpoint, has...

CVE-2022-24044

A vulnerability has been identified in Desigo DXR2 All versions V01.21.142.5-22, Desigo PXC3 All versions V01.21.142.4-18, Desigo PXC4 All versions V02.20.142.10-10884, Desigo PXC5 All versions V02.20.142.10-10884. The login functionality of the application does not employ any countermeasures...

Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. "The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface CLI tool that is being used by a wide range of...

CVE-2024-54852

When LDAP connection is activated in Teedy versions between 1.9 to 1.12, the username field of the login form is vulnerable to LDAP injection. Due to improper sanitization of user input, an unauthenticated attacker is then able to perform various malicious actions, such as creating arbitrary...

CVE-2024-54852

When LDAP connection is activated in Teedy versions between 1.9 to 1.12, the username field of the login form is vulnerable to LDAP injection. Due to improper sanitization of user input, an unauthenticated attacker is then able to perform various malicious actions, such as creating arbitrary...

CVE-2025-22390

An issue was discovered in Optimizely EPiServer.CMS.Core before 12.32.0. A medium-severity vulnerability exists in the CMS due to insufficient enforcement of password complexity requirements. The application permits users to set passwords with a minimum length of 6 characters, lacking adequate...

IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet

Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in "highly evasive" password spraying. Not sure about the "highly evasive" part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: "Any threat actor using the CovertNetwork-1658...

Talos IR trends Q3 2024: Identity-based operations loom large

Threat actors are increasingly conducting identity-based attacks across a range of operations that are proving highly effective, with credential theft being the main goal in a quarter of incident response engagements. These attacks were primarily facilitated by living-off-the-land binaries LoLBin...