A week in security (February 20 - 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: GoAnywhere zero-day opened door to Clop ransomware Chip company loses $250m after ransomware hits supply chain GoDaddy says it's a victim of multi-year cyberattack campaign Twitter and two-factor authentication: What's changing? How to set up two-factor...

K31757417: The BIG-IP APM system may log passwords in plaintext when the Debug log level is enabled

Security Advisory Description This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: You enable the Debug log level for the access policy. You configure the access policy on the BIG-IP APM system with either of the following: Citrix Login prompt with two-factor authentication Logon page...

How to set up two-factor authentication on Twitter using a hardware key

If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your Twitter account, you may be aware that this option will be reserved for paying Twitter Blue subscribers come mid-March. This post explains how to enable hardware key authentication instead. Enabling a hardware securi...

How to set up two-factor authentication on Twitter using an app

If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your Twitter account, you may be aware that this option will be reserved for paying Twitter Blue subscribers come mid-March. This post will explain how to enable app based authentication. We found it easier to do on our...

Twitter and two-factor authentication: What's changing?

Twitter is making some dramatic shake ups to its currently available security settings. From March 19, users of Twitter wont be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. If you use text-based 2FA, the important thing here...

PT-2023-2844 · Zimbra · Zimbra Collaboration

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Zimbra Collaboration ZCS versions 8.8.15 through 9.0 Description: The issue is related to a lack of account status check when sending emails using 2FA two-factor authentication in Zimbra Collaboration Suite. This can allow a remote attacker t...

How to Protect Yourself From Twitter’s 2FA Crackdown

Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication. Switch to these alternatives to keep your account safe...

GoDaddy says it's a victim of multi-year cyberattack campaign

Hosting and domain name company GoDaddy says it believes a "sophisticated threat actor group" has been subjecting the company to a multi-year attack campaign, the most recent of which occurred in December 2022. In December, it received complaints about customer websites being periodically...

Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn't Make Sense’

The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled...

Twitter Limits SMS-Based 2-Factor Authentication to Blue Subscribers Only

Twitter has announced that it's limiting the use of SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA to its Blue subscribers. "While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used – and abused – by bad actors," the company said. "We will no longer allow...

Researchers Hijack Popular NPM Package with Millions of Downloads

A popular npm package with more than 3.5 million weekly downloads has been found vulnerable to an account takeover attack. "The package can be taken over by recovering an expired domain name for one of its maintainers and resetting the password," software supply chain security company Illustria...

Researchers Hijack Popular NPM Package with Millions of Downloads

A popular npm package with more than 3.5 million weekly downloads has been found vulnerable to an account takeover attack. "The package can be taken over by recovering an expired domain name for one of its maintainers and resetting the password," software supply chain security company Illustria...

SUSE CVE-2018-3775

Improper Authentication in Nextcloud Server prior to version 12.0.3 would allow an attacker that obtained user credentials to bypass the 2 Factor Authentication...

SUSE CVE-2019-15612

A bug in Nextcloud Server 15.0.2 causes pending 2FA logins to not be correctly expired when the password of the user is reset...

SUSE CVE-2020-8236

A wrong configuration in Nextcloud Server 19.0.1 incorrectly made the user feel the passwordless WebAuthn is also a two factor verification by asking for the PIN of the passwordless WebAuthn but not verifying it...

SUSE CVE-2020-15105

Django Two-Factor Authentication before 1.12, stores the user's password in clear text in the user session base64-encoded. The password is stored in the session when the user submits their username and password, and is removed once they complete authentication by entering a two-factor...

SUSE CVE-2021-32800

Nextcloud server is an open source, self hosted personal cloud. In affected versions an attacker is able to bypass Two Factor Authentication in Nextcloud. Thus knowledge of a password, or access to a WebAuthN trusted device of a user was sufficient to gain access to an account. It is recommended...

SUSE CVE-2021-41179

Nextcloud is an open-source, self-hosted productivity platform. Prior to Nextcloud Server versions 20.0.13, 21.0.5, and 22.2.0, the Two-Factor Authentication wasn't enforced for pages marked as public. Any page marked as @PublicPage could thus be accessed with a valid user session that isn't...

SUSE CVE-2022-23807

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 4.9 before 4.9.8 and 5.1 before 5.1.2. A valid user who is already authenticated to phpMyAdmin can manipulate their account to bypass two-factor authentication for future login instances...

PT-2023-36335 · Unknown · Phpmyadmin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: phpMyAdmin affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a security fix for an XSS vulnerability in the drag-and-drop upload functionality. Additional bugfixes include resolving errors when configuring 2FA without XMLWriter ...