Tag: authentication
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Copeland XWEB Pro Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Gain Root Access and Manipulate Refrigeration Systems
Security researchers have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in Copeland’s XWEB Pro commercial refrigeration controllers, with 21 rated as high severity. These vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain root-level remote code execution and control connected cooling equipment. Claroty’s Team82 found that an attacker could exploit a combination of authentication flaws, predictable administrator credentials, and command-injection vulnerabilities…
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China-Linked Hackers Use N-able Flaw in Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft Says Storm-1175 Exploited CVE-2026-18577 After Its Disclosure. Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is exploiting N-able N-central authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 to gain administrative RMM access, pivot into managed endpoints and rapidly deploy its new StormEncryptor ransomware. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/china-linked-hackers-use-n-able-flaw-in-ransomware-attacks-a-32506
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PassPasskey Attack Exploits Windows and Entra ID to Bypass MFA
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, exploit, mfa, microsoft, passkey, phishing, windowsSecurity researchers have recently revealed a new attack family named “Pass-the-Passkey,” which enables adversaries to impersonate enterprise users and circumvent phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections in Windows 11 and Microsoft Entra ID environments. This research challenges the belief that passkeys are inherently immune to credential replay and session abuse. Pass-the-Passkey Attack Exploits Windows The attack…
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AzureOAuth-Login unsicher – Apache Airflow ermöglicht Umgehung der Authentifizierung
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/apache-airflow-fab-oauth-bypass-update-3-7-3-a-f17d8f692a37e6884f8b1018e6de7a27/
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit N-able Flaw in Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft Says Storm-1175 Exploited CVE-2026-18577 After Its Disclosure. Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is exploiting N-able N-central authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 to gain administrative RMM access, pivot into managed endpoints and rapidly deploy its new StormEncryptor ransomware. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/china-linked-hackers-exploit-n-able-flaw-in-ransomware-attacks-a-32506
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New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
Tags: attack, authentication, cloud, cryptography, data-breach, malware, mfa, passkey, password, phishing, windowsThree separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on.Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed, abused a cloud-synced passkey system from malware already on the victim’s machine, and used a First…
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New CSS Bomb Attacks Let Hackers Steal Passwords and Tokens From Webmail Users
Security researcher Gareth Heyes has revealed techniques for webmail attacks that exploit HTML and CSS, the technologies used to format emails, to manipulate user interfaces, leak authentication data, and in some cases, capture passwords. Webmail services need to display HTML controlled by the sender without compromising the security of the mailbox application. To achieve this,…
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Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication
Tags: access, authentication, business, cve, data, exploit, flaw, intelligence, software, sql, vulnerability, zero-dayMetabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain…
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AI Generated Code Risks: Why Business Owners Should Never Trust Software That Simply Works
AI can now generate working software in minutes. Ask Claude, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or another AI coding tool to create an API, authentication flow, admin…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/ai-generated-code-risks-why-business-owners-should-never-trust-software-that-simply-works/
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution – Patch ASAP
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. Under additional conditions, the bug can be chained into PHP code execution on the server.Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the High-severity vulnerability requires no attacker privileges. According to pwn.ai, First seen…
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Enterprise Java Vulnerabilities Enable Pre-Auth RCE in Bonita BPM and Apache OFBiz
Security research presented at Black Hat 2026 has identified 12 vulnerabilities across four enterprise Java platforms, including two critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) chains affecting Bonita BPM and Apache OFBiz. Researchers Lidor Ben Shitrit and Assaf Levkovich demonstrated how seemingly minor middleware vulnerabilities, such as differences in URL parsing, incomplete servlet protections, hardcoded cryptographic…
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Hackers Can Abuse Microsoft WSUS Servers to Deploy Malicious Updates via NTLM Relay
Security researchers have shown how attackers could exploit Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure to distribute malicious software updates across enterprise networks. This technique relies on NTLM authentication coercion and relay attacks targeting WSUS deployments that utilize a separate Microsoft SQL Server database. WSUS is commonly used by organizations to centrally manage, approve, and…
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Stolen Greatness Tokens Provide Microsoft 365 Access More Than Two Weeks After Phishing
Stolen Greatness authentication tokens are providing sustained, MFA”‘approved access to victim Microsoft 365 tenants for more than two weeks after the initial phish, underscoring that token replay not password theft is driving the persistence in this AiTM PhaaS ecosystem. Originally documented by Cisco Talos in May 2023 and further covered by Hornet Security, […] The…
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Kali365 Weaponizes Microsoft Authentication Against US Companies: New Enterprise Risk
Kali365 is turning a legitimate Microsoft login into a gateway to corporate data.The phishing kit targets US organizations with attacker-controlled device codes that victims approve on Microsoft’s real authentication page. Once access and refresh tokens are issued, attackers may retain access to email, documents, and cloud resources, creating a direct path to data exposure, financial…
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Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens
The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and seize control of user accounts.”Greatness supports AiTM [adversary-in-the-middle] credential and First seen on thehackernews.com…
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CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw Enabling Remote Admin Takeover to KEV
Tags: authentication, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2026-18577, an actively exploited authentication bypass vulnerability in N-able N-central, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and potentially take over administrative accounts on vulnerable N-central servers. CISA added this flaw to the KEV Catalog on August…
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U.S. CISA adds a N-able N-central flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a N-able N-central flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a N-able N-central flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-18577 (CVSS score of 8.2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-18577 (CVSS 8.2) is an authentication bypass flaw caused by an…
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Critical Check Point Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Commands on Management Servers
Check Point has disclosed a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable Security Management Servers and Multi-Domain Security Management Servers (MDS). This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-18574 and is detailed in Check Point Security Alert sk185222. It affects multiple legacy and current versions of their management platform.…
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Attackers Exploit N-able Patch Bypass Flaw on RMM Servers
Over the weekend, the vendor discovered another vector of authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 that gives attackers administrator access. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/attackers-exploit-n-able-patch-bypass-flaw
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N-able warns of N-central auth bypass flaw exploited in attacks
N-able is warning customers that hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) affecting both hosted and on-premises N-central servers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/n-able-warns-of-n-central-auth-bypass-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)
Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/03/cve-2026-18577-n-able-n-central-vulnerability/
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Enterprise Security Checklist for New SaaS Companies: From Domain Registration to Single Sign-On
Learn the essential security practices every SaaS startup should implement, including SSO, SCIM, MFA, email authentication, audit logs, and continuous monitoring. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/enterprise-security-checklist-for-new-saas-companies-from-domain-registration-to-single-sign-on/
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Hackers Exploit N-able N-central Flaw After Initial Fix Falls Short
N-able says attackers bypassed N-central authentication, reached managed client devices and installed Cloudflare tunnels that survived server access revocation. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/hackers-exploit-n-able-n-central-flaw-initial-fix/
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What the Minnesota Water Attacks Reveal About Securing Remote Access to Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, cisa, control, corporate, credentials, cyberattack, data-breach, exploit, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, law, least-privilege, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, password, risk, router, supply-chain, technology, vpn, zero-day, zero-trustWhen headlines break about cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, the conversation often turns immediately to zero-day exploits, advanced malware, and other sophisticated techniques. The recent attacks on municipal water systems across at least seven US states, including more than 30 Minnesota water and wastewater utilities, illustrate why this assumption can be misleading. As a “recovering CISO” who…
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N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers.Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version.N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform First seen…