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VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for shifting to ‘personal authentication’ as the future of identity

The Last Watchdog

I currently have over 450 accounts that use passwords combined with a variety of two-factor authentication methods. Related: How the Fido Alliance enables password-less authentication. Only a dozen or so of my accounts get authenticated via self-hosted services. The only problem is that my identity manager is not interoperable.

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NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)

Schneier on Security

The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected data in the cloud.” From the summary : Malicious cyberactors are abusing trust in federated authentication environments to access protected data.

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Okta reveals additional attackers’ activities in October 2023 Breach

Security Affairs

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach. HAR files can also contain sensitive data, including authentication information. HAR files can also contain sensitive data, including authentication information.

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SolarWinds hackers also used common hacker techniques, CISA revealed

Security Affairs

. “Frequently, CISA has observed the APT actor gaining Initial Access [ TA0001 ] to victims’ enterprise networks via compromised SolarWinds Orion products (e.g., ” CISA also added that inappropriately secured administrative credentials accessible via external remote access services were abused by thet attackers. .

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VulnRecap 3/11/24 – JetBrains & Atlassian Issues Persist

eSecurity Planet

March 4, 2024 JetBrains Server Issues Continue with New Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. The problem: Two authentication bypass vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 , allow unauthenticated attackers to exploit JetBrains TeamCity servers. and earlier OpenEdge 12.2.13 and earlier OpenEdge 12.8.0

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CISA orders federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti VPN instances by February 2

Security Affairs

The government experts also ordered to monitor the authentication or identity management services that could be exposed and urged to isolate the systems from any enterprise resources to the greatest degree possible. CISA also warned to continue to audit privilege-level access accounts. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2)