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Also, YellowKey Gets CVE, 7-Eleven Breach, Linux Maintainers Warn on AI Bug SpamThis week, more incidents than we can list here. Among them: cloned Shai-Hulud malware, a new maximum CVSS Cisco flaw. Edge to stop loading passwords in plaintext. Tycoon 2FA offers a way around Microsoft multifactor. Convenience, taquitos and data breach: The 7-Eleven story. A MENA crackdown.

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …

Also: Trojanized RedAlert App, Tycoon 2FA Takedown, CyberStrikeAI AttacksThis week, Cisco patches and hacks. Trojanized app targeted Israelis. Bye-bye, Tycoon 2FA. Also bye-bye LeakBase. A LexisNexis breach. Woman sentenced for trafficking Microsoft licenses. Silver Dragon targeted governments. Broadcom patch. A Mississippi medical clinic resumed operations.

Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more Cisco is fighting fires on a couple fronts this week after security incidents involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its remote-access VPN services.…

Cisco Duo's security team warns that hackers stole some customers' VoIP and SMS logs for multi-factor authentication (MFA) messages in a cyberattack on their telephony provider. [...]

Hackers are targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SSL VPNs in credential stuffing and brute-force attacks that take advantage of lapses in security defenses, such as not enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA). [...]

Cisco-owned multi-factor authentication (MFA) provider Duo Security is investigating an ongoing outage that has been causing authentication failures and errors starting three hours ago. [...]

Ransomware gang gained access to the company's VPN in May by convincing an employee to accept a multifactor authentication (MFA) push notification.