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Online gambling platform DraftKings has been hit by a credential stuffing attack in which attackers managed to break into users’ accounts and steal some $300,000. Credential stuffing uses previously leaked email addresses and passwords to gain automated account access. Attackers check whether they can also log in to website B with credentials stolen from website […]
Analysts see an uptick in token theft from authenticated users, allowing threat actors to bypass MFA protections. Stealing session cookies has become one of the most common ways that attackers circumvent multifactor authentication. For unmanaged devices, they recommend conditional access policies and strong controls.
Thanks in part to action by the Dutch police, the American authorities have taken offline a criminal marketplace where millions of stolen login details were traded, as well as tens of thousands of credit card details and scanned passports and driver’s licenses. The alleged administrator of the WT1Shop marketplace has also been charged. This is […]
Recent SMS phishing attacks company employees show how easy it is to set up a site that looks like the company’s IAM landing page (f.e. Okta) which asks for a user credentails and a one time passcode for access. This would result in gaining the users’ credententials which would be send to the attacker in […]
Twilio, which earlier this month became a sophisticated phishing attack, disclosed last week that the threat actors also managed to gain access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service.
Propietary software and technical information stolen of LastPass. No effects according to LastPass on 33 million active end-users and more than 100.000 businesses. LastPass says to update customers with transparency. Up2now LastPass didn’t elaborate on the exact mitigation techniques that it used to strengthen its environment. It also reiterated that the break-in had no impact […]
Cisco confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee’s personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser.“Initial access to the Cisco VPN was achieved via the successful compromise of a Cisco employee’s personal Google account” “The user had enabled password […]
A stolen password gave criminals access to 140,000 payment terminals used worldwide to process credit card payments. The payment terminals are from the company Wiseasy and are used by restaurants, hotels, shops and schools, especially in Asia. Through the Wisecloud cloud service, customers’ devices can be managed, configured and updated remotely by Wiseasy. The passwords […]
Microsoft phishing attacks have targeted more than 10,000 organizations starting with September 2021, using the gained access to victims’ mailboxes in follow-on business email compromise (BEC) attacks.The threat actors used landing pages designed to hijack the Office 365 authentication process (even on accounts protected by multifactor authentication (MFA) by spoofing the Office online authentication page.In […]
An engineer changed his Expersian account at Experian with a strong password in 2020 to place a security freeze on a credit file. Two years later he received an email from Experian saying the email address on his account had been changed. Experian’s password reset process was useless at that point because any password reset […]