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The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date. The embattled password management service last week revealed how unidentified actors leveraged information stolen from an earlier incident that took place prior to August 12, 2022, along with details "Available from a third-party data breach and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack" between August and October 2022.

5 open source Burp Suite penetration testing extensions you should check outWhen it comes to assessing the security of computer systems, penetration testing tools are critical for identifying vulnerabilities that attackers may exploit. LastPass breach: Hacker accessed corporate vault by compromising senior developer's home PCLastPass is, once again, telling customers about a security incident related to the August 2022 breach of its development environment and subsequent unauthorized access to the company's third-party cloud storage service that hosted backups.

"The threat actor was able to capture the employee's master password as it was entered after the employee authenticated with MFA and gained access to the DevOps engineer's LastPass corporate vault," detailed the company´s recent security incident report. LastPass issued recommendations for affected users and businesses in two security bulletins.

There's no date on the update, but as far as we can make out, LastPass just [2023-02-27] published a short document entitled Incident 2 - Additional details of the attack. As you probably remember, because the bad news broke just before the Christmas holiday season in December 2022, LastPass suffered what's known in the jargon as a lateral movement attack.

LastPass is, once again, telling customers about a security incident related to the August 2022 breach of its development environment and subsequent unauthorized access to the company's third-party cloud storage service that hosted backups: "The threat actor leveraged information stolen during the first incident, information available from a third-party data breach, and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack." The second incident went initially unnoticed, LastPass says, the tactics, techniques, and procedures and the indicators of compromise of the second incident "Were not consistent with those of the first." It was only later determined that the two incidents were related.

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems. "The threat actor leveraged information stolen during the first incident, information available from a third-party data breach, and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack," the password management service said.

LastPass disclosed a breach in December where threat actors stole partially encrypted password vault data and customer information. "The threat actor was able to capture the employee's master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer's LastPass corporate vault," reads a new security advisory published today.

LastPass-owner GoTo on Tuesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors were able to steal encrypted backups of some customers' data along with an encryption key for some of those backups in a November 2022 incident."The affected information, which varies by product, may include account usernames, salted and hashed passwords, a portion of multi-factor Authentication settings, as well as some product settings and licensing information," GoTo's Paddy Srinivasan said.

Opinion For better or worse, we still need passwords, and to protect and organize them, I recommend the open source Bitwarden password manager. LastPass is perhaps the world's most popular password manager.

LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal your password vaults, after all. Actually your passwords were encrypted, but the websites and the web services and an unstated list of other stuff that you stored, well, that *wasn't* encrypted.