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The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it is behind a wave of ongoing voice phishing attacks targeting single sign-on (SSO) accounts at Okta, Microsoft, and Google, enabling threat actors to breach corporate SaaS platforms and steal company data for extortion. [...]
Also: Ransomware Hackers Demand BaguettesThis week, Chinese spying, Italian hacking scandal, an FBI warning and Okta fixed a bug. Google mandated MFA, zero days in PTZOptics and a Mexican airport didn't pay ransom. Cybercriminals demanded baguettes, breach lettersin Ohio and Germany will shield white hats. The Italian DPA rebuked a bank.
Also: Okta Alert on Credential Stuffing; Data Breaches in SpainThis week, Google AI search provided wrong answers, Internet Archive suffered DDos attack, Okta warned of credential stuffing, Canada shut down two tech firms, attackers delivered malware with Stack Overflow, Telefónica is probing breach, Iberdrola was breached and RansomHub said it hit Christie's.
Also: Another Ivanti Zero-Day? And FBI Calls for Strengthening DMARC PoliciesThis week, REvil hacker sentenced; ZDI saw possible Ivanti-zero-day; FBI said to strengthen DMARC policies; Okta saw surge in credential stuffing attacks; French hospital refused to pay ransom; JPMorgan, debt collection agency and healthcare company were breached; and ex-NSA employee was sentenced.
Okta warns of an "unprecedented" spike in credential stuffing attacks targeting its identity and access management solutions, with some customer accounts breached in the attacks. [...]
Credential Stuffing Plummets, More Malicious Requests Detected Amid Huge InvestmentOkta's 90-day push to improve its security architecture and operations following a crippling October 2023 data breach delivered quick results, CEO Todd McKinnon said. Okta over the past quarter reduced credential stuffing attempts and malicious bot traffic for its largest customers by more than 90%.
The cyberattackers, believed to be state sponsored, didn't get far into Cloudflare's global network, but not for lack of trying.
Cloudflare revealed suspected nation-state attackers compromised its systems and accessed source code using credentials stolen in the Okta breach
Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October.…
Also: Cloudflare Was Hacked With Stolen Okta TokenThis week, former CIA programmer gets 40-year sentence, zero trust prevents widespread damage, possible ransomware attack in Georgia, alleged hacker detained in Ukraine, USB-spread malware in Italy, LockBit attack on non-bank home mortgage lender, and Ukrainian critical infrastructure disrupted.
Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a 'nation state' attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Atlassian Bitbucket source code management system. [...]
Early disclosures related to September compromise insisted less than 1% of Okta customers were impacted; now, the company says it was all of them.
Exposure is limited to names and emails for most
When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. 20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta said the intrusion allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from fewer than one percent of its 18,000+ customers. But today, Okta revised that impact statement, saying the attackers also stole the name and email address for nearly all of its customer support users.
All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought.…
Okta's investigation into the breach of its Help Center environment last month revealed that the hackers obtained data belonging to all customer support system users. [...]
Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected "additional threat actor activity" in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system
Okta's breach highlighted the importance of sanitizing the data logged in HAR files before sharing them.
Plus: CVSS 4.0 is here, this week's critical vulns, and 'incident' hit loan broker promises no late fees. Generous Infosec in brief Okta has confirmed details of its October breach, reporting that the incident led to the compromise of files belonging to 134 customers, "or less than 1 percent of Okta customers." …
Several suffered follow-on session hijacking attacks