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the FBI warn users of popular webmail accounts that passwords and even MFA can be defeated by new attacks
.,The US government’s cybersecurity agency has added its voice to the mix, alerting to new email threats and advising Windows users to stop using SMS based multifactor authentication .is intended for CISOs and enterprise users, given “multiple reports of a large-scale spear-phishing campaign targeting organizations in several sectors, including government and information technology .” But it applies broadly.
Spear-phishing is malicious big brother to the more common scattergun phishing emails we all receive weekly. It targets specific individuals and organizations, and so can be harder to detect and is certainly more likely to trick users., “spear phishing is one of the most effective forms of phishing because cybercriminals tailor their scams to be as convincing as possible to their targets… Researchers found that spear phishing accounted for less than 0.
CISA says a foreign threat actor, “often posing as a trusted entity,” is now crafting its spear-phishing attack with emails “containing malicious remote desktop protocol files to targeted organizations to connect to and access files stored on the target’s network.” This opens the risk of tunneling via one desktop out to the wider enterprise, or even “deploying malicious code to achieve persistent access.
CISA has issued a top-ten list of ways in which organizations can boost security to fend off such attacks. It’s a mix of generic with more specific measures related to Windows remote desktop protocol. But all enterprises—whether nor not they feel vulnerable—should bear these measures in mind:While some of this is very specific, the key points are more generic and should be the default for all.
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