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A common user mistake can lead to compromised Okta login credentials
2023-03-23 13:24

Logged failed logins into a company's Okta domain could be used by threat actors to discover access credentials of valid accounts, Mitiga researchers have found. Those credentials can then be used log in to any of the organization's platforms that use Okta single sign-on or - if the login credentials belong to an administrator - to gain privileged access to other systems or restricted network areas.

Crooks copy source code from Okta’s GitHub repository
2022-12-23 00:27

Intruders copied source code belonging to Okta after breaching the identity management company's GitHub repositories. Okta was alerted by Microsoft-owned GitHub earlier this month of "Suspicious access" to its code repositories and determined that miscreants copied code associated with the company's Workforce Identity Cloud, an enterprise-facing access and identity management tool to enable workers and partners to work from anywhere.

Hackers Breach Okta's GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code
2022-12-22 03:49

Okta, a company that provides identity and access management services, disclosed on Wednesday that some of its source code repositories were accessed in an unauthorized manner earlier this month. The security event, which was first reported by Bleeping Computer, involved unidentified threat actors gaining access to the Okta Workforce Identity Cloud code repositories hosted on GitHub.

Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
2022-12-21 06:15

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management solutions, says that its private GitHub source code repositories were hacked this month. According to a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the security incident involves threat actors stealing Okta's source code.

Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
2022-12-21 06:15

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management solutions, says that its private GitHub source code repositories were hacked this month. According to a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the security incident involves threat actors stealing Okta's source code.

Okta shares workaround for ongoing Microsoft 365 SSO outage
2022-11-16 15:10

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services, has shared a workaround for ongoing issues preventing customers from logging into their accounts using Microsoft Office 365 Single Sign-On. Based on a new incident added to the company's status page, the outage affects users across the United States, EMEA, and Japan. "We have deployed a fix across all cells. After deploying the fix, we are still seeing a number of issues. We are still actively investigating these issues to isolate a fix. We are also actively monitoring the systems," the company said in a recent update.

Okta: Credential stuffing accounts for 34% of all login attempts
2022-09-21 13:17

Credential stuffing attacks have become so prevalent in the first quarter of 2022 that traffic surpassed that of legitimate login attempts from normal users in some countries. Once the credential are leaked or brute-forced from one site, threat actors perform a credential stuffing attack that attempts to use the same leaked credentials at other sites to gain access to users' accounts.

Okta one-time MFA passcodes exposed in Twilio cyberattack
2022-08-28 17:15

The threat actor behind the Twilio hack used their access to steal one-time passwords delivered over SMS from customers of Okta identity and access management company. Okta provides its customers with multiple forms of authentication for services, including temporary codes delivered over SMS through Twilio.

Twilio breach let hackers see Okta's one-time MFA passwords
2022-08-28 17:15

The threat actor behind the Twilio hack used their access to steal one-time passwords delivered over SMS from customers of Okta identity and access management company. Okta provides its customers with multiple forms of authentication for services, including temporary codes delivered over SMS through Twilio.

Twilio hackers hit over 130 orgs in massive Okta phishing attack
2022-08-25 14:53

Hackers responsible for a string of recent cyberattacks, including those on Twilio, MailChimp, Cloudflare, and Klaviyo, compromised over 130 organizations in the same phishing campaign. This phishing campaign utilized a phishing kit codenamed '0ktapus' to steal 9,931 login credentials that the hackers then used to gain access to corporate networks and systems through VPNs and other remote access devices.