An application disseminated by Hamas via the private messaging app Telegram clued security investigators in to a crossover between the militant Palestinian group and cyber infrastructure linked to Iran, as well as links to a known hacker group. According to a report from cybersecurity company Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, the research team first identified the […]
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Attackers managed to breach identity and access management company Okta’s support system using stolen credentials and extracted valid customer session tokens from uploaded support files, according to a report by the firm. The strong multifactor authentication (MFA) policies enforced by one of the company’s impacted customers allowed it to detect the unauthorized access, block it, […]
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A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet hire themselves […]
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Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe Five Eyes coalition’s principles focus on reducing the possibility of IP theft, particularly from nation-state-sponsored threat actors.
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Most companies offer some kind of awareness training these days. But how much of those lessons are employees actually retaining?
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Attackers compromised customer support files containing cookies and session tokens, which could result in malicious impersonation of valid Okta users.
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If we really want to move the dial on security habits, it’s time to think beyond phishing tests. Our panel of CISOs and other security heavy-hitters offer expert tips that go beyond the obvious.
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Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 (CVSS score: 7.2), the issue relates to a privilege escalation flaw in the web UI feature and is said to have been used alongside CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS […]
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