FIDO: Here’s Another Knife to Help Murder Passwords
After years of promising a passwordless future – really, any day now! – FIDO is proposing tweaks to WebAuthn that could put us out of password misery. Experts aren’t so sure.
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LAPSUS$ Hackers Claim to Have Breached Microsoft and Authentication Firm Okta
Microsoft and authentication services provider Okta said they are investigating claims of a potential breach alleged by the LAPSUS$ extortionist gang.
The development, which was first reported by Vice and Reuters, comes after the cyber criminal group …
Serpent Backdoor Slithers into Orgs Using Chocolatey Installer
An unusual attack using an open-source Python package installer called Chocolatey, steganography and Scheduled Tasks is stealthily delivering spyware to companies.
Read MoreWazuh Offers XDR Functionality at a Price Enterprises Will Love — Free!
Back in 2018, Palo Alto Networks CTO and co-founder Nir Zuk coined a new term to describe the way that businesses needed to approach cybersecurity in the years to come. That term, of course, was extended detection and response (XDR). It described a un…
Read MoreU.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyber Attacks
The U.S. government on Monday once again cautioned of potential cyber attacks from Russia in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west on the country following its military assault on Ukraine last month.
“It’s part of Russia’s playbook,” …
New Dell BIOS Bugs Affect Millions of Inspiron, Vostro, XPS, Alienware Systems
Five new security weaknesses have been disclosed in Dell BIOS that, if successfully exploited, could lead to code execution on vulnerable systems, joining the likes of firmware vulnerabilities recently uncovered in Insyde Software’s InsydeH2O and HP U…
Read MoreBrowser-in-the-Browser Attack Makes Phishing Nearly Invisible
Can we trust web browsers to protect us, even if they say “https?” Not with the novel BitB attack, which fakes popup SSO windows to phish away credentials for Google, Facebook and Microsoft, et al.
Read MoreFacestealer Trojan Hidden in Google Play Plunders Facebook Accounts
The trojanized Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools app is available in the official Android app store, but it’s actually spyware capable of stealing any and all information from victims’ social-media accounts.
Read MoreConti Ransomware V. 3, Including Decryptor, Leaked
The latest is a fresher version of the ransomware pro-Ukraine researcher ContiLeaks already released, but it’s reportedly clunkier code.
Read MoreBridgestone Hit as Ransomware Torches Toyota Supply Chain
A ransomware attack struck Bridgestone Americas, weeks after another Toyota supplier experienced the same and a third reported some kind of cyber hit.
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