Two-Week ATO Attack Mitigated by Imperva

Beginning on February 7, an Imperva-protected account was targeted by an ongoing account takeover ATO attack that lasted for two weeks. On average, attacks last a few hours or a couple days at most, so the length of this attack was an anomaly and underscores the persistence of the attackers. As a...

CVE-2022-27672

A flaw was found in HW. When SMT is enabled, certain AMD processors may speculatively execute instructions using a target from the sibling thread after an SMT mode switch, potentially resulting in information disclosure. Mitigation The current mitigations for spectre V4 or spectrev2 should mitiga...

CVE-2023-23752

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.2.7. An improper access check allows unauthorized access to webservice endpoints. Recent assessments: noraj at March 24, 2023 9:21am UTC reported: There are at least two ways to achieve RCE. Vector n°1 It leaks the MySQL credentials, in default a...

SUSE CVE-2010-2524

The DNS resolution functionality in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35, when CONFIGCIFSDFSUPCALL is enabled, relies on a user's keyring for the dnsresolver upcall in the cifs.upcall userspace helper, which allows local users to spoof the results of DNS queries and perform...

Siemens Desigo PXC and DXR Devices Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (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...

Trading Convenience for Credentials

Tap. Eat. Repeat. Regret? Using food or grocery delivery apps is great. It really is. Sure, there’s a fee, but when you can’t bring yourself to leave the house, it’s a nice treat to get what you want delivered. As a result, adoption of food apps has been incredibly fast and they are now a...

LastPass Admits to Severe Data Breach, Encrypted Password Vaults Stolen

The August 2022 security breach of LastPass may have been more severe than previously disclosed by the company. The popular password management service on Thursday revealed that malicious actors obtained a trove of personal information belonging to its customers that include their encrypted...

Imperva Stops Hordes of Bots from Hijacking Financial Accounts in Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack

Consider for a moment that an army of bots is setting their sights on your website. They target your login page and hammer it with millions of requests in an ongoing attack that lasts days, raising your infrastructure and fraud prevention costs. Would this frighten you? What if this barrage of bo...

How Imperva Mitigates Security Threats in Oracle Cloud Infrastructures

Most organizations today rely on an unprecedented number of computing resources to build, deploy and scale the workflows and applications they need to succeed. They are responsible for more data than ever before, on-premises and in the cloud, which presents them with challenges they’ve never face...

New Research: We’re Still Terrible at Passwords; Making it Easy for Attackers

Passwords, amirite? We all have them. Probably a lot of them. And they are among the most important lines of defense against nefarious attackers seeking access to our online accounts. Sadly, as we all know too well, password health isn’t exactly our collective strong suit and too often we hear...

Credential stuffers take aim at Final Fantasy XIV players

Square Enix, the company behind video games like Final Fantasy XIV, reports that a third party is attempting to gain access to its Account Management System. How is this happening, and what are the risks? More importantly, what do you need to do to ensure your accounts are safe from harm?...

Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not proud of it, but honestly its a relief to finally get it off my chest. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. It...

Exchange servers abused for spam through malicious OAuth applications

Microsoft has published a security blog about an investigation into an attack in which threat actors used malicious OAuth applications to abuse Exchange servers for their spam campaign. The threat actor behind this attack has been active for many years, and has been running spam campaigns using...

Hackers Using Malicious OAuth Apps to Take Over Email Servers

Microsoft on Thursday warned of a consumer-facing attack that made use of rogue OAuth applications deployed on compromised cloud tenants to ultimately seize control of Exchange servers and spread spam. "The threat actor launched credential stuffing attacks against high-risk accounts that didn't...

Malicious OAuth applications abuse cloud email services to spread spam

Microsoft researchers recently investigated an attack where malicious OAuth applications were deployed on compromised cloud tenants and then used to control Exchange Online settings and spread spam. The investigation revealed that the threat actor launched credential stuffing attacks against...

Malicious OAuth applications abuse cloud email services to spread spam

Microsoft researchers recently investigated an attack where malicious OAuth applications were deployed on compromised cloud tenants and then used to control Exchange Online settings and spread spam. The investigation revealed that the threat actor launched credential stuffing attacks against...

A week in security (September 12 – 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: The North Face hit by credential stuffing attack Facebook engineers aren't sure where all user data is kept 6 patch management best practices for businesses The MSP playbook on deciphering tech promises and shaping security culture Apple puts the password on life...

School app Seesaw compromised to send shock NSFW image

On Wednesday, parents and teachers reported that student learning platform, Seesaw, had been hacked after some users received an infamous explicit photo known as "goatse" on private chats. Schools from districts in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas...

The North Face hit by credential stuffing attack

The North Face clothing brand, which specialises in outdoor and heavy weather outerwear, has experienced a "large-scale" credential stuffing attack. This has resulted in no fewer than 194,905 accounts being compromised. What is credential stuffing, and how did it affect The North Face customers?...

Experts Find Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions Used by 1.4 Million Users

Five imposter extensions for the Google Chrome web browser masquerading as Netflix viewers and others have been found to track users' browsing activity and profit off retail affiliate programs. "The extensions offer various functions such as enabling users to watch Netflix shows together, website...