Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. Data belonging to current and former Government of Canada employees, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel have been also exposed. Both contractors suffered a security breach in October.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Since April 2021, Russian state-sponsored hackers have exploited vulnerabilities, including Zimbra’s CVE-2022-27924 for injecting commands to access credentials and emails, and JetBrains TeamCity’s CVE-2023-42793 for arbitrary code execution through an authentication bypass.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. These infected websites host a PHP script which displays a seemingly authentic update. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ivanti warned customers of a new critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38035. The zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-35078 was exploited by threat actors in recent attacks against the ICT platform used by twelve ministries of the Norwegian government.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Advisory Urges Multifactor Authentication, Network Segmentation, Patching and More The pace of Conti ransomware attacks has been increasing, with more than 400 organizations globally having fallen victim, warns a joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2023

26 Countries Hit by Espionage Group Storm-0558 Through Microsoft Outlook Flaw Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. By redirecting the pointer to the Line Dancer interpreter, attackers can interact with the device through POST requests without authentication.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2021

Estonia ‘s police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to be the hacker who stole 286K ID scans from the government systems. Estonian police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to have stolen 286,438 belonging to Estonians citizens from the government systems. or take a new document photo. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The correct IAM solution is that roof and can allow you to integrate: Policy configuration Multi-factor authentication (MFA) Single sign-on (SSO) And more, for all cloud and web-based apps. Integrations As you’re looking to expand your security influence, it helps to have things under one roof.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks. The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. No customer action is required.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. The last stage malware is the PHP-based SYS01stealer malware which is able to steal browser cookies and abuse authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim’s Facebook account.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 31, 2023

Exploitation No Longer Requires Admin Authentication When Chained With Earlier Flaw Threat actors who recently attacked a dozen Norwegian ministries by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti's endpoint management software appeared to have another zero-day flaw that tied to the overall attack exploit chain, Ivanti confirmed on Friday.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2024

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation ) is a modern cloud automation platform that simplifies and streamlines the deployment, management, and governance of cloud infrastructure and applications. ” read the advisory. ” read the advisory. The vulnerability impacts VMware Aria Automation version 8.x,

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Alert Follows Week's Worth of Revelations About SolarWinds Breach The NSA has issued a warning about two hacking techniques that could allow threat actors to access cloud resources by bypassing authentication mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users.” using CVE-2022-22972.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

First-Ever Outside Investment Will Allow CIAM Provider to Better Authenticate Users A Colorado-based customer identity platform hauled in $65 million to effectively identify and authenticate users with government IDs or mobile phones. and Europe.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation ) is a modern cloud automation platform that simplifies and streamlines the deployment, management, and governance of cloud infrastructure and applications. VMware warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting its Aria Automation multi-cloud infrastructure automation platform.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The attacks have gone on since at least October 2023, Iran-linked threat actors attempted to hack user accounts and obtain access to organizations in the healthcare and public health (HPH), government, information technology, engineering, and energy sectors. ” reads the joint report published by the US CISA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

SolarWinds describes WHD as an affordable Help Desk Ticketing and Asset Management Software that is widely used by large enterprises and government organizations. While it was reported as an unauthenticated vulnerability, SolarWinds has been unable to reproduce it without authentication after thorough testing.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2022

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. “Like domain controllers, AD FS servers can authenticate users and should therefore be treated with the same high level of security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. “An The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Multiple attacks against private organizations and government entities, especially during the pandemic, were carried out by threat actors by exploiting vulnerabilities in popular VPN systems. Select only solutions that support strong authentication credentials and protocols, and disables weak credentials and protocols by default.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Forrester's Sandy Carielli Shares Highlights From API Security Report Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli highlights key API security aspects in Forrester's report titled The Eight Components of API Security," which covers governance, discovery, testing, authentication and protection from API breaches as many organizations are grappling with the maturity (..)

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Governments can create a digital identity at birth to replace SSN in its current use. About the essayist: Ambuj Kumar is Co-founder and CEO of Simbian , AI Agents for cybersecurity The post GUEST ESSAY: Massive NPD breach tells us its high time to replace SSNs as an authenticator first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

40% of 2,280 official government email addresses from the British, European, and French Parliaments were exposed, including passwords, birth dates, and other details. Many of these MPs, MEPs, deputies, and senators hold senior positions, including heads of committees, government ministers, and senior opposition leaders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Once a user has successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page, the Owawa module captures its credential. The module verifies the successful authentication by checking that the OWA application is sending an authentication token back to the user. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. It is worrying that all analyzed brands have at least some models that allow users to keep default passwords or have no authentication setup whatsoever.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Organizations need to govern and control the API ecosystem, this governance is the role of API management. – Authentication and Security : APIs may require authentication for access control. organizations need to govern and control the API ecosystem. This governance is the role of API management.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Russian government really developed this tactic in Ukraine.” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia was also interviewed as part of the same TV program and described how his experts discovered the attack when hackers attempted to bypass two-factor authentication. A code pops up on our phone. We have to type in that code.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

MESSAGE FROM #ANONYMOUS RABBIT: "People shouldn't be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people." The central bank sets the country’s economic policy, governs a country’s currency, maintains price stability, and oversees local banks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A ransomware attack recently hit Georgia county government and reportedly disabled a database used to verify voter signatures. A ransomware attack hit a Georgia county government early this month and disabled a database used to verify voter signatures in the authentication of absentee ballots.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks. The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2021

These platforms are widely used in government agencies and by organizations in the supply chain of several government offices, for this reason, the agency wants to support them in securing their infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple threat actors are chaining these issues to bypass authentication, craft malicious requests, and execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. Government experts also reported that the exploitation of the flaw can allow threat actors to maintain root-level persistence. ” reads the advisory. x), Policy Secure (9.x,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

No wonder Russia has been preparing to cut itself off from the global internet, hoping to move key government institutions to a sovereign Runet – a pan-Russian web limited to the Federation – to make them less prone to cyber attacks. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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