Microsoft announced the implementation of number matching for push notifications via Microsoft Authenticator in an effort to counter the increasing prevalence of multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks.
CyberScoop has written an article discussing federal concerns over victims’ reluctance to report ransomware attacks to the broader community, as outlined in the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force May 2023 Progress Report. The FBI and Justice Department have stated that only 20% of victims report if they’ve been infected.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Vulnerability Advisories:
Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins:
Commodity malware continues to plague businesses and the threat actors employing them are utilizing a diverse toolset of tactics, techniques, and procedures in order to proliferate the malware, such as IcedID and Qbot/Qakbot, and compromise more victims.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Vulnerability Advisories:
Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins:
The Chromium Project has posted a blog announcing the removal of the lock symbol used to represent whether a page is utilizing HTTPS in Chrome. The project’s reasoning behind this change is that HTTPS has become such a ubiquitous protocol that the purpose of the lock to signify whether a page is secure has become redundant.
Security Week has written an article covering the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division’s ruling in favor of Merck in the company’s $1.4 billion claim against insurers for the fallout of the NotPetya attack it suffered in 2017. Insurers argued that the property insurance offered to Merck had a war exclusion clause that was “clear and unambiguous, and it plainly applies to the NotPetya attack.”
- by Jennifer Lyn Walker
Despite all the hype, many organizations implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) and complex passwords can still fall victim to cyber attacks. Multiple threat actor types are increasingly bypassing MFA controls, typically through MFA push notification fatigue or exploiting weaknesses in self-enrollment configurations, to gain access to a victim’s network.
Organizations large and small are adopting endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions to provide visibility into their networks. However, according to security researchers, many organizations’ percentage of EDR coverage on endpoints is in the range of 60-70 percent, leaving 30-40 percent of devices out of their control, greatly increasing an organization’s cyber risk.
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