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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to reports, the hacker groups identified as BlackCat/ALPHV and Scattered Spider are behind these attacks. This vulnerability is not unique to MGM nor Okta; it’s a systemic problem with multi-factor authentication.

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CVE-2023-4966 (CitrixBleed): Invalidate Active or Persistent Sessions To Prevent Further Compromise

Tenable

Tenable Research has published two blogs on CitrixBleed, our initial analysis of the vulnerability as well as a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) blog providing added context surrounding the in-the-wild exploitation by threat actors including multiple ransomware groups. ransomware group in their exploitation of CitrixBleed.

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Microsoft’s May 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 59 CVEs (CVE-2024-30051, CVE-2024-30040)

Tenable

A local attacker with a presence on a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. Discovery of this flaw is credited to several researchers at Google Threat Analysis Group, Google Mandiant and Kaspersky. Once exploited, an attacker could execute code on the target system.

Windows 118
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CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident

CircleCI

We encourage customers who have yet to take action to do so in order to prevent unauthorized access to third-party systems and stores. A note on employee responsibility vs. systems safeguards. This notification kicked off a deeper review by CircleCI’s security team with GitHub. Security best practices. Closing thoughts.

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884)

Tenable

According to researchers at Microsoft, exploitation of CVE-2023-36884 has been attributed to a threat actor known as Storm-0978, also known as DEV-0978 and RomCom, a reference to the backdoor used by the group as part of its attacks. Additionally, the group also conducts intelligence gathering operations that rely on credential theft.

Windows 98
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CVE-2021-26084: Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Initial confusion surrounding authentication requirement. When the vulnerability was first disclosed on August 25, the advisory stated that an authenticated attacker or “in some instances” an unauthenticated attacker — depending on the configuration — could exploit the flaw. Identifying affected systems. Get more information.

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Examining the Treat Landscape

Tenable

According to a joint alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Security Agency (NSA), threat actors have been exploiting RDP to breach water and wastewater systems in the United States. Specialty candy: Active Directory.

SMB 98