Tag: mfa
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Evilginx Attack Campaigns: Session Cookie Theft and MFA Bypass Tactics
Security researchers are issuing urgent warnings about a rising wave of cyberattacks leveraging Evilginx, an attacker-in-the-middle phishing toolkit that intercepts login flows to steal session cookies and circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections. The threat is particularly acute within educational institutions, where attackers are demonstrating alarming success rates. Evilginx operates with surgical precision by positioning itself…
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Evilginx Attack Techniques Allow Hackers to Defeat MFA Through SSO Phishing
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, framework, hacker, login, mfa, open-source, phishing, threatA sophisticated threat actor has been conducting a persistent phishing campaign against United States educational institutions since April 2025, leveraging the open-source Evilginx framework to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign, which has targeted at least 18 universities to date, utilizes adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to intercept login credentials and session cookies by mimicking legitimate single…
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Evilginx Attack Techniques Allow Hackers to Defeat MFA Through SSO Phishing
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, framework, hacker, login, mfa, open-source, phishing, threatA sophisticated threat actor has been conducting a persistent phishing campaign against United States educational institutions since April 2025, leveraging the open-source Evilginx framework to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign, which has targeted at least 18 universities to date, utilizes adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to intercept login credentials and session cookies by mimicking legitimate single…
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Product showcase: UserLock IAM for Active Directory
UserLock brings modern identity and access management (IAM) to Active Directory, adding granular multi-factor authentication (MFA), contextual access controls, single sign-on … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/02/product-showcase-userlock-iam-for-active-directory/
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OpenAI admits data breach after analytics partner hit by phishing attack
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, backdoor, breach, chatgpt, credentials, data, data-breach, email, governance, government, mfa, openai, password, phishing, riskName provided to OpenAI on the API account Email address associated with the API accountApproximate location based on API user browser (city, state, country)Operating system and browser used to access the API accountReferring websitesOrganization or User IDs associated with the API account”We proactively communicated with all impacted customers. If you have not heard from us directly,…
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How AI Threats Have Broken Strong Authentication
A look at why identity security is failing in the age of deepfakes and AI-driven attacks, and how biometrics, MFA, PAD, and high-assurance verification must evolve to deliver true, phishing-resistant authentication. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-ai-threats-have-broken-strong-authentication/
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How AI Threats Have Broken Strong Authentication
A look at why identity security is failing in the age of deepfakes and AI-driven attacks, and how biometrics, MFA, PAD, and high-assurance verification must evolve to deliver true, phishing-resistant authentication. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-ai-threats-have-broken-strong-authentication/
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How AI Threats Have Broken Strong Authentication
A look at why identity security is failing in the age of deepfakes and AI-driven attacks, and how biometrics, MFA, PAD, and high-assurance verification must evolve to deliver true, phishing-resistant authentication. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-ai-threats-have-broken-strong-authentication/
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Tycoon 2FA: Das Phishing-Kit, das 2FA ausgehebelt hat
Um 2FA- und MFA-Verfahren zu umgehen, setzt das Kit auf einen Adversary-in-the-Middle-Ansatz (AiTM) und Reverse-Proxy-Server. Darüber werden täuschend echt nachgebaute Login-Seiten bereitgestellt, die Anmeldedaten und Sitzungscookies in Echtzeit abgreifen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/tycoon-2fa-das-phishing-kit-das-2fa-ausgehebelt-hat/a42947/
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The Death of Legacy MFA and What Must Rise in Its Place
Tycoon 2FA proves that the old promises of “strong MFA” came with fine print all along: when an attacker sits invisibly in the middle, your codes, pushes, and one-time passwords become their codes, pushes, and one-time passwords too. Tycoon 2FA: Industrial-Scale Phishing Comes of Age Tycoon 2FA delivers a phishing-as-a-service kit that hands even modestly..…
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Top 7 Strategies for Securing Customer Data While Expanding Your Business Internationally
Learn the top strategies to secure customer data when expanding internationally, from MFA and encryption to compliance, SIEM, and scalable security partners. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/top-7-strategies-for-securing-customer-data-while-expanding-your-business-internationally/
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Top 7 Strategies for Securing Customer Data While Expanding Your Business Internationally
Learn the top strategies to secure customer data when expanding internationally, from MFA and encryption to compliance, SIEM, and scalable security partners. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/top-7-strategies-for-securing-customer-data-while-expanding-your-business-internationally/
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Signing In to Online Accounts
Explore secure methods for signing into online accounts, including SSO, MFA, and password management. Learn how CIAM solutions enhance security and user experience for enterprises. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/signing-in-to-online-accounts/
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Signing In to Online Accounts
Explore secure methods for signing into online accounts, including SSO, MFA, and password management. Learn how CIAM solutions enhance security and user experience for enterprises. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/signing-in-to-online-accounts/
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The Akira Playbook: How Ransomware Groups Are Weaponizing MFA Fatigue
Akira ransomware is exploiting MFA push-spam, weak VPN security and identity gaps. Learn why these attacks succeed and the counter-playbook defenders must deploy now. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/the-akira-playbook-how-ransomware-groups-are-weaponizing-mfa-fatigue/
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The Akira Playbook: How Ransomware Groups Are Weaponizing MFA Fatigue
Akira ransomware is exploiting MFA push-spam, weak VPN security and identity gaps. Learn why these attacks succeed and the counter-playbook defenders must deploy now. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/the-akira-playbook-how-ransomware-groups-are-weaponizing-mfa-fatigue/
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Overcome the myriad challenges of password management to bolster data protection
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, backup, best-practice, breach, business, cio, cloud, compliance, control, cyberattack, data, data-breach, gartner, GDPR, identity, infrastructure, international, kaspersky, mfa, password, risk, software, technology, tool, update[1]And both enterprises and small and mid-sized businesses have already made significant investments in authentication, access controls and identity and access management (IAM).[2]But these investments are not effective without robust passwords. At the same time, password management is a cost for IT and security teams, and an inconvenience for technology users.The scale of the problem…
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The Tycoon 2FA Phishing Platform and the Collapse of Legacy MFA
Tycoon 2FA enables turnkey real-time MFA relays behind 64,000+ attacks this year, proving legacy MFA collapses the moment a phishing kit targets it. Learn from Token Ring how biometric, phishing-proof FIDO2 hardware blocks these relay attacks before they succeed. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-tycoon-2fa-phishing-platform-and-the-collapse-of-legacy-mfa/
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Tycoon 2FA and the Collapse of Legacy MFA
Tycoon 2FA enables turnkey real-time MFA relays behind 64,000+ attacks this year, proving legacy MFA collapses the moment a phishing kit targets it. Learn from Token Ring how biometric, phishing-proof FIDO2 hardware blocks these relay attacks before they succeed. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tycoon-2fa-and-the-collapse-of-legacy-mfa/
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Spam flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, spam, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.When Sonatype wrote about the campaign just over a year ago, it found a mere 15,000 packages that appeared to come from a single person.With the swollen numbers reported this week,…
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Worm flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.”It’s unfortunate that the worm isn’t under control yet,” said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, he predicted.”I’m sure somebody out there in the world is looking at this massively replicating worm and wondering if they can ride…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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EOL-Software gefährdet Unternehmenssicherheit
Geräte mit End-of-Life-Software (EOL) stellen nach wie vor ein weit verbreitetes Sicherheitsproblem in Unternehmen dar.Laut einer Studie von Palo Alto Networks laufen 26 Prozent der Linux-Systeme und acht Prozent der Windows-Systeme mit veralteten Versionen. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf Telemetriedaten von 27 Millionen Geräten in den Netzwerken von 1.800 Unternehmen.Die Analyse offenbart zudem, dass 39 Prozent…
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Devolutions Server Flaw Allows Attackers to Impersonate Users via Pre-MFA Cookie
Devolutions Server has been found vulnerable to a critical security flaw that allows low-privileged authenticated users to impersonate other accounts by replaying pre-MFA cookies. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-12485, carries a critical CVSS score of 9.4 and affects all versions up to 2025.3.5. The company has released patches to address this and a second vulnerability…