Context On August 9, 2023, Akamai researchers reported a campaign they dubbed “Xurum,” which leverages the “patched critical security flaw (CVE-2022-24086, CVSS score: 9.8) in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that, if successfully exploited, could lead to arbitrary code execution.” Technical Details Key takeaways from the Akamai report include: “We have observed activity in…
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On August 9, 2023, researchers at Proofpoint reported the technical details of a campaign between March and June 2023 leveraging the EvilProxy Phishing as a Service (PaaS) tool to target executives at over 100 global firms with a combination of attacker in the middle (AiTM) and account takeover (ATO) tactics. Context Key takeaways from the…
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Context On July 27, 2023, The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released an advisory “to warn vendors, designers, and developers of web applications and organizations using web applications about insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities.” The advisory primarily consists…
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Before publishing, Descope informed Microsoft, several “large vulnerable applications,” and two authentication platform providers of the issue and Microsoft has reportedly taken mitigating steps. Context On June 20, 2023, researchers at Descope reported the technical details of a security flaw in the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Open Authorization (OAuth) process they dubbed “n0Auth.” According…
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On June 13, 2023, security researchers at Trellix reported the details of a new information stealing malware written in Golang that they dubbed “Skuld.” Context Since April 2023, Trellix researchers observed the malware active against unspecified targets in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Technical Details According to the report, Skuld attempts to steal sensitive…
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