Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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. …

PoisonSeed Threat Actor Uses Cross-Device Login Feature and QR Code to Trick UsersExpel researchers have found a novel adversary-in-the-middle phishing technique used by PoisonSeed, a cybercrime group previously tied to large-scale cryptocurrency thefts, to sidestep one of the most secure forms of multifactor authentication - FIDO2 physical keys.

MFA Authenticator apps aren't cutting it anymore. Attackers are bypassing legacy MFA with fake sites and real-time phishing. Token Ring and BioStick stop them cold—with fingerprint-bound hardware. Learn more from Token. [...]

Threat actors with suspected ties to Russia have been observed taking advantage of a Google account feature called application specific passwords (or app passwords) as part of a novel social engineering tactic designed to gain access to victims' emails

The massive phishing campaign does not exploit a vulnerability in MFA. Instead, it spoofs an Office 365 authentication page to steal credentials.