Tag: authentication
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IP Lookup for Enterprise Authentication: How to Use IP Reputation, VPN/Proxy Detection, and Risk-Based MFA
Learn how IP lookup, reputation checks, VPN detection, and risk-based MFA strengthen enterprise authentication and prevent fraud. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/ip-lookup-for-enterprise-authentication-how-to-use-ip-reputation-vpn-proxy-detection-and-risk-based-mfa/
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Sendmarc Releases DMARCbis Fireside Chat Featuring Co-Editor Todd Herr
Wilmington, North America, February 24th, 2026, CyberNewswire In a recent DMARCbis fireside chat, email authentication leaders discussed upcoming DMARC changes and how teams can plan for 2026. Sendmarc has released a new fireside chat featuring Todd Herr, Principal Solutions Architect at GreenArrow Email and co-editor of DMARCbis, on the upcoming update to DMARC (Domain-based Message…
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Shai-Hulud-style NPM worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools
Poisoning the AI developer interface: The campaign was specifically flagged for its direct targeting of AI coding assistants. The malware deploys a malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and injects it into configurations of popular AI tools, embedding itself as a trusted component in the assistant’s environment.Once this is achieved, prompt-injection techniques can trick the…
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Building Secure SaaS Architecture: Why Identity Must Be Designed from Day One
Learn why identity must be built into SaaS architecture from day one to ensure secure authentication, compliance, and scalable growth. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/building-secure-saas-architecture-why-identity-must-be-designed-from-day-one/
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Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, breach, compliance, container, control, data, fido, Hardware, identity, login, msp, phishing, service, software, tool, zero-trustMaster Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager madhav Tue, 02/24/2026 – 07:53 The move to passwordless authentication is no longer a distant goal; it’s a present-day necessity. Organizations are rapidly adopting FIDO2 authenticators to defend against phishing and strengthen their security posture. While this shift enhances security, it introduces a new challenge: managing…
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The rise of the evasive adversary
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, china, cloud, credentials, crime, crowdstrike, crypto, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, korea, lazarus, leak, mail, malicious, malware, microsoft, monitoring, network, north-korea, open-source, phishing, ransomware, remote-code-execution, russia, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayBig game hunters tighten their grip: CrowdStrike’s research highlights how big game hunting (BGH) ransomware actors have remained the dominant force in the eCrime landscape.Punk Spider, a group responsible for developing and maintaining Russian-language Akira ransomware, and its associated Akira dedicated leak site, conducted 198 intrusions in 2025, a 134% increase year over year. Victim-shaming operations…
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Russian group uses AI to exploit weakly-protected Fortinet firewalls, says Amazon
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, business, ciso, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data-breach, detection, exploit, firewall, fortinet, group, Internet, linkedin, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, password, russia, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityRecommendations: The Amazon report makes a number of recommendations to network admins with FortiGate devices. They include ensuring device management interfaces aren’t exposed to the internet, or, if they have to be, restricting access to known IP ranges and using a bastion host or out-of-band management network. As basic cybersecurity demands, all default and common…
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How SmugMug Strengthened Email Authentication and Deliverability with EasyDMARC
Originally published at How SmugMug Strengthened Email Authentication and Deliverability with EasyDMARC by Sona Mirzoyan. About the Customer Company: SmugMug Industry: Image Hosting … First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/how-smugmug-strengthened-email-authentication-and-deliverability-with-easydmarc/
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Phishing-Kampagne umgeht Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung von Microsoft 365
KnowBe4 Threat Labs hat eine komplexe Phishing-Kampagne entdeckt, die auf US-amerikanische Unternehmen und Fachkräfte abzielt. Die Angriffe kompromittieren Microsoft-365-Konten (Outlook, Teams, Onedrive), indem sie den OAuth-2.0-Geräteautorisierungsfluss missbrauchen und dadurch selbst starke Passwörter und Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung (MFA) überlisten. Das Opfer wird auf das legitime Microsoft-Portal ‘https://microsoft.com/devicelogin” weitergeleitet, um einen vom Angreifer bereitgestellten Gerätecode einzugeben. Durch die Eingabe…
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Starkiller Phishing Kit Clones Real Login Pages to Evade MFA Protections
New phishing framework Starkiller is enabling more convincing, scalable credential theft by proxying real login pages and bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA), significantly raising the bar for defenders. Traditional phishing kits typically serve static HTML clones of popular login portals, which quickly become outdated when brands update their interfaces, creating telltale visual discrepancies. Starkiller takes a…
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‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand’s real website, and…
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Identity Cyber Scores: The New Metric Shaping Cyber Insurance in 2026
With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater emphasis on identity posture when assessing cyber risk. For many organizations, however, these assessments remain largely opaque. Elements such as password hygiene, privileged access management, and the extent of multi-factor authentication (MFA) coverage are First seen on thehackernews.com…
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PayPal launches latest struggle to get rid of SMS for MFA
Tags: authentication, ceo, ciso, communications, compliance, cybersecurity, email, finance, fraud, government, group, login, mfa, mobile, nfc, passkey, password, phishing, risk, service, strategy, switch, updateMuddled effort, mixed messages Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, says he’s “always found it odd” that PayPal still supports SMS as its primary secondary authentication factor.”Everyone in financial services and government has abandoned it for not being sufficiently secure and are moving to even phishing-resistant authentication, such as passkeys, Yubikeys,” he…
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10 Passwordless-Optionen für Unternehmen
Um Passwörter hinter sich zu lassen, gibt es bessere Lösungen. Wir zeigen Ihnen zehn. Passwörter sind seit Jahrzehnten der Authentifizierungsstandard für Computersysteme, obwohl sie sich immer wieder aufs Neue als anfällig für diverse Cyberangriffsformen erwiesen haben und kompromittierte Benutzerkonten auf regelmäßiger Basis zum Einfallstor für kriminelle Hacker werden. Ein Mittel für CISOs, um diesem Problem…
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How AI Agents Are Transforming Identity Verification and Authentication Systems
Explore how AI agents enhance identity verification and authentication systems with smarter fraud detection and seamless user security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/how-ai-agents-are-transforming-identity-verification-and-authentication-systems/
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Shadow Machines: The Non-Human Identities Exposing Your Cloud AI Stack
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, data, encryption, framework, governance, iam, identity, infrastructure, iot, jobs, login, mfa, password, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, toolShadow Machines: The Non-Human Identities Exposing Your Cloud & AI Stack madhav Thu, 02/19/2026 – 06:30 The machines we don’t see are the ones running our businesses. Unfortunately, most IAM systems do not track them. In an ironic twist, the ghost in the machine has become the machine itself: invisible, autonomous, and increasingly beyond human…
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Empowering a Global SaaS Workforce: From Identity Security to Financial Access
Explore how identity security and financial access solutions empower a global SaaS workforce with secure authentication and seamless payments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/empowering-a-global-saas-workforce-from-identity-security-to-financial-access/
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Empowering a Global SaaS Workforce: From Identity Security to Financial Access
Explore how identity security and financial access solutions empower a global SaaS workforce with secure authentication and seamless payments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/empowering-a-global-saas-workforce-from-identity-security-to-financial-access/
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Empowering a Global SaaS Workforce: From Identity Security to Financial Access
Explore how identity security and financial access solutions empower a global SaaS workforce with secure authentication and seamless payments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/empowering-a-global-saas-workforce-from-identity-security-to-financial-access/
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Windows Admin Center: Verbreitetes Microsoft-Verwaltungstool ist angreifbar
Administratoren sollten zügig das Windows Admin Center patchen. Denn Angreifer können eine Sicherheitslücke in der Authentifizierung ausnutzen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/remote-verwaltungstool-gefaehrliche-sicherheitsluecke-in-windows-admin-center-2602-205555.html
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, computing, credentials, cryptography, data, email, encryption, github, hacker, oracle, side-channel, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTwo popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model response for security vendors. The…
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, computing, credentials, cryptography, data, email, encryption, github, hacker, oracle, side-channel, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTwo popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model response for security vendors. The…
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Remote-Verwaltungstool: Gefährliche Sicherheitslücke in Windows Admin Center
Administratoren sollten zügig das Windows Admin Center patchen. Denn Angreifer können eine Sicherheitslücke in der Authentifizierung ausnutzen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/remote-verwaltungstool-gefaehrliche-sicherheitsluecke-in-windows-admin-center-2602-205555.html
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Banks Need Revocable AI Identities, Continuous Trust Models
Fraud Specialist David Barnhardt on Addressing Authentication Risks of Agentic AI. Financial institutions are racing to deploy AI agents that can initiate payments, approve transactions and freeze accounts. But traditional authentication frameworks assume there’s a human on the other end. As agentic AI use grows, banks are facing an authentication crisis that demands new controls.…