Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about the evolution of video conferencing since the 2020 pandemic, the security challenges faced by video conferencing tools, how companies and governments have acknowledged the risks, and the best practices to avoid such attacks.
Rclone is a data syncing tool often used by threat actors to exfiltrate data during a ransomware attack. Typically, the actors deploy Rclone after gaining remote access to the victim’s network. However, recently, Kroll experts have noted the use of Rclone in M365, using credentials stolen through network compromises or phishing attacks with minimal privileges to stealthily exfiltrate large amounts of SharePoint/OneDrive data.
The 21st century has seen a dramatic increase in the number and sophistication of cybersecurity threats. Here are the 7 biggest threats that businesses and individuals need to be aware of.
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Today, we have over 600+ unique techniques to discover subdomain takeovers in over 2,000 Detectify customers. Identifying subdomain takeovers is tricky business as they rely on signature-based tests which are prone to false positives due to outdated signatures. That’s why we run our subdomain takeover tests on hundreds of thousands of customer assets every day.
Threat actors continue to evolve methods to access valid credentials using new techniques such as multi-factor authentication or MFA spamming that we must detect. On Sept. 15, the security world was worked into a frenzy across social media as details of Uber’s “cybersecurity incident” were revealed.
While Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for over a decade, they still continue to evolve and escalate, particularly during 2022. The tense geopolitical situation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the nature and intensity of these types of attacks, making states official participants in the DDoS mitigation market.
A lot of attention gets paid to preventing pass-the-hash and pass-the-ticket attacks, but these tactics limit adversaries to what they can perform from the command line. Compromising a plaintext password gives an attacker unlimited access to an account — which can include access to web applications, VPN, email and more. One way to extract plaintext passwords is through Kerberoasting, but this brute-force technique takes a lot of time and patience.
On the 22nd September 2022, Australian telecommunications company Optus reported that they had experienced a cyber breach affecting nearly 11 million customers, which may make it the worst cyber attack in Australia’s history. Details of this attack are still emerging, however it has taken a couple of twists in the weeks following the attack, and there are some early indicators as to what occurred. In the News.
The overpass-the-hash attack is a combination of two other attacks: pass-the-hash and pass-the-ticket. All three techniques fall under the Mitre category “Exploitation of remote services.” In an overpass-the-hash attack, an adversary leverages the NTLM hash of a user account to obtain a Kerberos ticket that can be used to access network resources.
