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The increased use of multi-factor authentication has pushed developers of phishing kits to come up with ways to bypass that added account protection measure. Proofpoint researchers have flagged three such phishing kits: Modlishka, Muraena/Necrobrowser, and Evilginx2.
More and more phishing kits are focusing on bypassing multi-factor authentication methods, researchers have warned - typically by stealing authentication tokens via a man-in-the-middle attack. According to an analysis from Proofpoint, MFA-bypass phishing kits are proliferating rapidly, "Ranging from simple open-source kits with human readable code and no-frills functionality to sophisticated kits utilizing numerous layers of obfuscation and built-in modules that allow for stealing usernames, passwords, MFA tokens, Social Security numbers and credit-card numbers."
Details of how the crooks pulled off the attack aren't given in the report, which says simply that "Transactions were being approved without the 2FA authentication control being inputted by the user." What the report doesn't explain, or even mention, is whether 2FA codes were entered by someone - albeit not by customers themselves - in order to authorise the fraudulent withdrawals, or whether the 2FA part of the authentication process was somehow bypassed entirely.
Clearly, the stakes are high - gaining access to a Box account could give cyberattackers access to a vast array of sensitive documents and data for both individuals and organizations. When a user goes to log on with his or her credentials, Box generates the cookies and the user is asked to navigate to an SMS verification page, where the person is instructed to enter a one-time passcode sent to an enrolled mobile phone.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug in Box's multi-factor authentication mechanism that could be abused to completely sidestep SMS-based login verification. "Using this technique, an attacker could use stolen credentials to compromise an organization's Box account and exfiltrate sensitive data without access to the victim's phone," Varonis researchers said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Zoho has addressed a new critical severity vulnerability that affects the company's Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP unified endpoint management solutions. ManageEngine Desktop Central is an endpoint management platform that allows admins to deploy patches and software over the network and troubleshoot them remotely.
Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there. Like any antivirus solution, Microsoft Defender lets users add locations on their systems that should be excluded from malware scans.
Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation. For legal reasons, the FBI did not monitor outgoing messages from Anom devices determined to be inside the U.S. Instead, the Australian Federal Police monitored them on behalf of the FBI, according to previously published court records.
A short-lived phishing campaign has been observed taking advantage of a novel exploit that bypassed a patch put in place by Microsoft to fix a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the MSHTML component with the goal of delivering Formbook malware. "The attachments represent an escalation of the attacker's abuse of the CVE-2021-40444 bug and demonstrate that even a patch can't always mitigate the actions of a motivated and sufficiently skilled attacker," SophosLabs researchers Andrew Brandt and Stephen Ormandy said in a new report published Tuesday.
The Log4j saga: New vulnerabilities and attack vectors discoveredThe Apache Log4j saga continues, as several new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular library since Log4Shell was fixed by releasing Log4j v2.15.0. Cyber insurance trends: Insurers and insurees must adapt equally to growing threatsIn this interview with Help Net Security, Avi Bashan, CTO at Kovrr, talks about cyber insurance trends and how the growing threat landscape impacted both insurers and insurees.