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Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover

A security shortcoming in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Open Authorization (OAuth) process could have been exploited to achieve full account takeover, researchers said. California-based identity and access management service Descope, which discovered and reported the issue in April 2023, dubbed it nOAuth. "nOAuth is an authentication implementation flaw that can affect Microsoft Azure AD

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Chinese Hacker Group 'Flea' Targets American Ministries with Graphican Backdoor

Foreign affairs ministries in the Americas have been targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored actor named Flea as part of a recent campaign that spanned from late 2022 to early 2023. The cyber attacks, per Broadcom's Symantec, involved a new backdoor codenamed Graphican. Some of the other targets included a government finance department and a corporation that markets products in the Americas as

RHEL confidential virtual machines on Azure: A technical deep dive

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 CVM Preview image for Azure confidential VMs has been released, and it represents an important step forward in confidential virtual machines. In this article, I focus on the changes Implemented to support the emerging confidential computing use-case, and some of the expected changes in the future. For this article, I'm using confidential virtual machines (CVMs) with the Technology Preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, running as a guest on Microsoft Azure confidential VMs. This builds on my previous post in which I discussed the high-level requirements fo

The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver

By Deeba Ahmed The hackers from the infamous BlackCat ransomware gang (also known as ALPHV) have claimed to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver

Experts Uncover Year-Long Cyber Attack on IT Firm Utilizing Custom Malware RDStealer

A highly targeted cyber attack against an East Asian IT company involved the deployment of a custom malware written in Golang called RDStealer. "The operation was active for more than a year with the end goal of compromising credentials and data exfiltration," Bitdefender security researcher Victor Vrabie said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. Evidence gathered by the Romanian

Potential Risk of Privilege Escalation in Azure AD Applications

Summary Summary Microsoft has developed mitigations for an insecure anti-pattern used in Azure AD (AAD) applications highlighted by Descope, and reported to Microsoft, where use of the email claim from access tokens for authorization can lead to an escalation of privilege. An attacker can falsify the email claim in tokens issued to applications.

Potential Risk of Privilege Escalation in Azure AD Applications

Summary Summary Microsoft has developed mitigations for an insecure anti-pattern used in Azure AD (AAD) applications highlighted by Descope, and reported to Microsoft, where use of the email claim from access tokens for authorization can lead to an escalation of privilege. An attacker can falsify the email claim in tokens issued to applications.

Polycom BToE Connector 4.4.0.0 Buffer Overflow / Man-In-The-Middle

Polycom BToE Connector version 4.4.0.0 suffers from remote buffer overflow and man-in-the-middle vulnerabilities.

Microsoft Discloses DDoS Attack Impact with Limited Details

By Waqas Microsoft has acknowledged that the crippling service outages in early June 2023 were caused by a DDoS attack apparently carried out by "Anonymous Sudan." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Discloses DDoS Attack Impact with Limited Details

State-Backed Hackers Employ Advanced Methods to Target Middle Eastern and African Governments

Governmental entities in the Middle East and Africa have been at the receiving end of sustained cyber-espionage attacks that leverage never-before-seen and rare credential theft and Exchange email exfiltration techniques. "The main goal of the attacks was to obtain highly confidential and sensitive information, specifically related to politicians, military activities, and ministries of foreign