Tag: mfa

Worm flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control

Nov 15, 2025 5:49 AM

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, worm

CSO 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…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks

Nov 14, 2025 4:49 PM

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, vulnerability

Learn 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…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks

Nov 14, 2025 4:49 PM

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, vulnerability

Learn 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…
EOL-Software gefährdet Unternehmenssicherheit

Nov 13, 2025 7:50 PM

Tags: access, ai, ciso, cloud, endpoint, firewall, firmware, grc, group, Hardware, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, linux, mfa, network, risk, router, software, update, voip, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

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…
Devolutions Server Flaw Allows Attackers to Impersonate Users via Pre-MFA Cookie

Nov 11, 2025 11:20 AM

Tags: cve, cvss, cyber, flaw, mfa, vulnerability

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…
Devolutions Server Flaw Allows Attackers to Impersonate Users via Pre-MFA Cookie

Nov 11, 2025 11:20 AM

Tags: cve, cvss, cyber, flaw, mfa, vulnerability

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…
Your passwordless future may never fully arrive

Nov 11, 2025 9:20 AM

Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, breach, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, group, infrastructure, insurance, mfa, network, passkey, password, risk, service, strategy, technology, vpn, zero-trust

All-in passwordless strategies fall short: Jim Taylor, chief product and strategy officer at RSA, says today’s enterprise environment and existing passwordless approaches make “100% passwordless not possible just yet,” adding that “85% is possible, with the 15% representing the complicated and the very specialized” needs such as “security admins who need to log in to…
Your passwordless future may never fully arrive

Nov 11, 2025 9:20 AM

Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, breach, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, group, infrastructure, insurance, mfa, network, passkey, password, risk, service, strategy, technology, vpn, zero-trust

All-in passwordless strategies fall short: Jim Taylor, chief product and strategy officer at RSA, says today’s enterprise environment and existing passwordless approaches make “100% passwordless not possible just yet,” adding that “85% is possible, with the 15% representing the complicated and the very specialized” needs such as “security admins who need to log in to…
CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help

Nov 10, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: attack, business, ceo, cio, ciso, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, framework, guide, identity, intelligence, metric, mfa, mitre, nist, office, okta, risk, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, update, usa, vulnerability

Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help

Nov 10, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: attack, business, ceo, cio, ciso, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, framework, guide, identity, intelligence, metric, mfa, mitre, nist, office, okta, risk, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, update, usa, vulnerability

Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help

Nov 10, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: attack, business, ceo, cio, ciso, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, framework, guide, identity, intelligence, metric, mfa, mitre, nist, office, okta, risk, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, update, usa, vulnerability

Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Will Take Center Stage in Cyber in 2026, Google Says, as MITRE Revamps ATTCK Framework

Nov 7, 2025 8:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, android, antivirus, api, apple, attack, authentication, business, cio, cisa, ciso, cloud, communications, container, control, credentials, cryptography, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, docker, endpoint, exploit, firewall, flaw, framework, google, governance, group, guide, hacker, identity, infrastructure, injection, Internet, kubernetes, leak, least-privilege, linux, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, mobile, network, offense, oracle, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, skills, soc, social-engineering, software, sophos, spam, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, threat, tool, unauthorized, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

Learn why Google expects AI to transform cyber defense and offense next year, and explore MITRE’s major update to the ATT&CK knowledge base. We also cover a new McKinsey playbook for agentic AI security, along with the latest on Microsoft Exchange protection and the CIS Benchmarks. Key takeaways Google is forecasting that AI will kick…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Will Take Center Stage in Cyber in 2026, Google Says, as MITRE Revamps ATTCK Framework

Nov 7, 2025 8:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, android, antivirus, api, apple, attack, authentication, business, cio, cisa, ciso, cloud, communications, container, control, credentials, cryptography, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, docker, endpoint, exploit, firewall, flaw, framework, google, governance, group, guide, hacker, identity, infrastructure, injection, Internet, kubernetes, leak, least-privilege, linux, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, mobile, network, offense, oracle, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, skills, soc, social-engineering, software, sophos, spam, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, threat, tool, unauthorized, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

Learn why Google expects AI to transform cyber defense and offense next year, and explore MITRE’s major update to the ATT&CK knowledge base. We also cover a new McKinsey playbook for agentic AI security, along with the latest on Microsoft Exchange protection and the CIS Benchmarks. Key takeaways Google is forecasting that AI will kick…
Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?

Nov 7, 2025 2:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trust

Stop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?

Nov 7, 2025 2:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trust

Stop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?

Nov 7, 2025 2:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trust

Stop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?

Nov 7, 2025 2:20 PM

Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trust

Stop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
How crooks use IT to enable cargo theft

Nov 5, 2025 5:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, control, crime, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, endpoint, finance, fraud, government, group, incident response, infosec, infrastructure, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, login, mfa, network, password, phishing, privacy, risk, skills, smishing, social-engineering, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability

Value of stolen shipments has doubled: It’s hard to determine the size of this IT-related cargo theft problem. The US National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates cargo theft losses from all sources increased 27% last year compared to 2023, to $35 billion.Versik CargoNet, a company that tracks physical supply chain crime for law enforcement agencies, insurance…
How crooks use IT to enable cargo theft

Nov 5, 2025 5:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, control, crime, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, endpoint, finance, fraud, government, group, incident response, infosec, infrastructure, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, login, mfa, network, password, phishing, privacy, risk, skills, smishing, social-engineering, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability

Value of stolen shipments has doubled: It’s hard to determine the size of this IT-related cargo theft problem. The US National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates cargo theft losses from all sources increased 27% last year compared to 2023, to $35 billion.Versik CargoNet, a company that tracks physical supply chain crime for law enforcement agencies, insurance…
Anatomy of Tycoon 2FA Phishing: Tactics Targeting M365 and Gmail

Nov 4, 2025 12:19 PM

Tags: 2fa, authentication, cyber, malware, mfa, phishing, service, strategy, tactics, threat

The Tycoon 2FA phishing kit represents one of the most sophisticated threats targeting enterprise environments today. This Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform, which emerged in August 2023, has become a formidable adversary against organizational security, employing advanced evasion techniques and adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) strategies to bypass multi-factor authentication protections. According to the Any.run malware trends tracker, Tycoon 2FA…
Modern supply-chain attacks and their real-world impact

Nov 4, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, apache, attack, authentication, backdoor, breach, china, control, credentials, crowdstrike, crypto, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, espionage, exploit, github, group, infection, infosec, injection, intelligence, korea, lazarus, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, microsoft, network, north-korea, open-source, password, phishing, pypi, qr, risk, social-engineering, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, worm, zero-day

This is what modern software supply-chain attacks look like. Since the industry-shaking SolarWinds compromise of 2020, the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Early high-profile incidents targeted build servers or tampered software updates. Today’s attackers prefer a softer entry point: the humans maintaining open-source projects.In the last two years, the majority of large-scale supply-chain intrusions have…
Modern supply-chain attacks and their real-world impact

Nov 4, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, apache, attack, authentication, backdoor, breach, china, control, credentials, crowdstrike, crypto, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, espionage, exploit, github, group, infection, infosec, injection, intelligence, korea, lazarus, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, microsoft, network, north-korea, open-source, password, phishing, pypi, qr, risk, social-engineering, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, worm, zero-day

This is what modern software supply-chain attacks look like. Since the industry-shaking SolarWinds compromise of 2020, the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Early high-profile incidents targeted build servers or tampered software updates. Today’s attackers prefer a softer entry point: the humans maintaining open-source projects.In the last two years, the majority of large-scale supply-chain intrusions have…
Modern supply-chain attacks and their real-world impact

Nov 4, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, apache, attack, authentication, backdoor, breach, china, control, credentials, crowdstrike, crypto, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, espionage, exploit, github, group, infection, infosec, injection, intelligence, korea, lazarus, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, microsoft, network, north-korea, open-source, password, phishing, pypi, qr, risk, social-engineering, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, worm, zero-day

This is what modern software supply-chain attacks look like. Since the industry-shaking SolarWinds compromise of 2020, the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Early high-profile incidents targeted build servers or tampered software updates. Today’s attackers prefer a softer entry point: the humans maintaining open-source projects.In the last two years, the majority of large-scale supply-chain intrusions have…
Lawmakers say stolen police logins are exposing Flock surveillance cameras to hackers

Nov 4, 2025 12:19 AM

Tags: authentication, breach, cctv, hacker, law, login, mfa

Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially exposing dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/lawmakers-say-stolen-police-logins-are-exposing-flock-surveillance-cameras-to-hackers/
Lawmakers say stolen police logins are exposing Flock surveillance cameras to hackers

Nov 4, 2025 12:19 AM

Tags: authentication, breach, cctv, hacker, law, login, mfa

Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially exposing dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/lawmakers-say-stolen-police-logins-are-exposing-flock-surveillance-cameras-to-hackers/
Hacktivists increasingly target industrial control systems, Canada Cyber Centre warns

Nov 3, 2025 1:20 PM

Tags: authentication, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, leak, mfa, military, service, technology, vpn, vulnerability

Hacked fuel tank gauges can lead to dangerous situations: In another incident reported by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, attackers accessed an internet-exposed automated tank gauge (ATG) belonging to a Canadian oil and gas company and manipulated its values, triggering false alarms.ATGs are used to monitor fuel level, pressure, and temperature inside fuel tanks.…
Hacktivists increasingly target industrial control systems, Canada Cyber Centre warns

Nov 3, 2025 1:20 PM

Tags: authentication, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, leak, mfa, military, service, technology, vpn, vulnerability

Hacked fuel tank gauges can lead to dangerous situations: In another incident reported by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, attackers accessed an internet-exposed automated tank gauge (ATG) belonging to a Canadian oil and gas company and manipulated its values, triggering false alarms.ATGs are used to monitor fuel level, pressure, and temperature inside fuel tanks.…
TDL 008 – Defending the Frontline: Ransomware, AI, and Real-World Lessons

Nov 3, 2025 5:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, breach, business, ceo, ciso, computer, country, crime, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, email, exploit, extortion, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, government, group, guide, healthcare, ibm, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, intelligence, law, mfa, microsoft, penetration-testing, phone, powershell, ransom, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, service, social-engineering, strategy, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day

Summary In this episode of “The Defender’s Log,” host David Redekop interviews Alexander Rau, a cybersecurity partner at KPMG, about the evolving incident response (IR) landscape. Rau notes that the past summer was exceptionally busy for IR, driven largely by zero-day firewall vulnerabilities. He highlights that threat actors are innovating, even using AI chatbots for…
TDL 008 – Defending the Frontline: Ransomware, AI, and Real-World Lessons

Nov 3, 2025 5:19 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, breach, business, ceo, ciso, computer, country, crime, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, email, exploit, extortion, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, government, group, guide, healthcare, ibm, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, intelligence, law, mfa, microsoft, penetration-testing, phone, powershell, ransom, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, service, social-engineering, strategy, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day

Summary In this episode of “The Defender’s Log,” host David Redekop interviews Alexander Rau, a cybersecurity partner at KPMG, about the evolving incident response (IR) landscape. Rau notes that the past summer was exceptionally busy for IR, driven largely by zero-day firewall vulnerabilities. He highlights that threat actors are innovating, even using AI chatbots for…
Replacing Traditional Authentication Methods for Remote Access

Nov 3, 2025 5:19 AM

Tags: access, authentication, mfa, password, vpn

Explore modern authentication methods for secure remote access, replacing outdated passwords and VPNs with MFA, passwordless, and ZTNA for enhanced security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/replacing-traditional-authentication-methods-for-remote-access/