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MFA Adoption Pushes Phishing Actors to Reverse-proxy Solutions The rising adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for online accounts pushes phishing actors to use more sophisticated solutions to continue their malicious operations, most notably reverse-proxy tools. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people work forever, proving that it’s possible and sometimes even preferable to work
Wormhole Cryptocurrency Platform Hacked to Steal $326 million Hackers have exploited a vulnerability in the Wormhole cross-chain crypto platform to steal $326 million in cryptocurrency. Wormhole is a platform that allows users to transfer cryptocurrency across different blockchains. It does this by locking the original token in a smart contract and then minting a wrapped version
ESET Antivirus Bug Let Attackers Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges Slovak internet security firm ESET released security fixes to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple products on systems running Windows 10 and later or Windows Server 2016 and above. The flaw (CVE-2021-37852) was reported by Michael DePlante of Trend Micro’s Zero Day
Office 365 Boosts Email Security Against MITM, Downgrade Attacks Microsoft has added SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support to Exchange Online to ensure Office 365 customers’ email communication integrity and security. Redmond first announced MTA-STS’ introduction in September 2020, after revealing that it was also working on adding inbound and outbound support for DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) and DANE for SMTP