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The Iranian state-backed hacking outfit called APT42 is making use of enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and cloud environments. Targets of the attack...
Palo Alto firewalls: CVE-2024-3400 exploitation and PoCs for persistence after resets/upgradesThere are proof-of-concept techniques allowing attackers to achieve persistence on Palo Alto Networks firewalls after CVE-2024-3400 has been exploited, the company has confirmed on Monday, but they are "Not aware at this time of any malicious attempts to use these persistence techniques in active exploitation of the vulnerability." Okta warns customers about credential stuffing onslaughtCredential stuffing attacks have exploded this April, Okta warns, and advises its customers to use available tools to block access requests originating from residential proxies before authentication takes place.
A new malware called Cuttlefish is targeting small office and home office (SOHO) routers with the goal of stealthily monitoring all traffic through the devices and gather authentication data from...
Security researchers in Adobe's bug bounty program can now pick up rewards for finding vulnerabilities in Adobe Firefly and Content Credentials. Members of Adobe's public bug bounty program will be eligible to work with Adobe Firefly and Content Credentials in the second half of 2024, and applications for the private program are open.
A new malware named 'Cuttlefish' has been spotted infecting enterprise-grade and small office/home office routers to monitor data that passes through them and steal authentication information. Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs examined the new malware and reports that Cuttlefish creates a proxy or VPN tunnel on the compromised router to exfiltrate data discreetly while bypassing security measures that detect unusual sign-ins.
Credential stuffing attacks have exploded this April, Okta warns, and advises its customers to use available tools to block access requests originating from residential proxies before authentication takes place. "In credential stuffing attacks, adversaries attempt to sign-in to online services using large lists of usernames and passwords obtained from previous data breaches of unrelated entities, or from phishing or malware campaigns," Okta's Moussa Diallo and Brett Winterford explained.
Identity and access management (IAM) services provider Okta has warned of a spike in the "frequency and scale" of credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services. These unprecedented attacks,...
Okta warns of an "Unprecedented" spike in credential stuffing attacks targeting its identity and access management solutions, with some customer accounts breached in the attacks. In an advisory today, Okta says the attacks seem to originate from the same infrastructure used in the brute-force and password-spraying attacks previously reported by Cisco Talos [1, 2]. In all attacks that Okta observed the requests came through the TOR anonymization network and various residential proxies.
New cybersecurity research has found that command-line interface (CLI) tools from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud can expose sensitive credentials in build logs, posing significant...
Roku warns that 576,000 accounts were hacked in new credential stuffing attacks after disclosing another incident that compromised 15,000 accounts in early March. The company said the attackers used login information stolen from other online platforms to breach as many active Roku accounts as possible in credential stuffing attacks.