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Sharing Mitiga’s latest threat intelligence and research, cloud IR insights, and company news
If It Scares You, It Might Be Good to Try — Monorepo and Dynamically Configured CI
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In this blog, Mitiga Devops Engineer Stav Ochakovski addresses our organizational monorepo shift and why it triggered a CI adjustment, as well.
Elastic IP Hijacking — A New Attack Vector in AWS
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Read Mitiga research about a new post-exploitation attack method, a new way that enables adversaries to hijack public IP addresses for malicious purposes.
Oops, I Leaked It Again — How Mitiga Found PII in Exposed Amazon RDS Snapshots
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A recent Mitiga Research Team investigation found the well-regarded Amazon Relational Database Service is leaking PII via exposed RDS Snapshots.
Uber Cybersecurity Incident: Which Logs Do IR Teams Need to Focus On?
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On September the 16th, Uber announced they experienced a major breach in their organization in which malicious actor was able to log in and take over multiple services and internal tools used at Uber. What are some of the logs that IR teams should be focusing on in their investigation?
Advanced BEC Scam Campaign Targeting Executives on O365
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Mitiga spotted a sophisticated, advanced business email compromise (BEC) campaign, directly targeting relevant executives of organizations (mostly CEOs and CFOs) using Office 365.
Advisory: Persistent MFA Circumvention in an Advanced BEC Campaign on Microsoft 365 Targets
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Mitiga investigated an attempted Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. While the alertness of the involved parties prevented the fraud, the attack indicated that the attacker had access to sensitive information that could only be obtained by compromising a user in the organization.
Google Workspace - Log Insights to Your Threat Hunt
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Google Workspace is a popular service for document collaboration for organizations and for individual users. Threat actors note that the popularity of this service is increased, and search for ways to exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, so it is important to know how to hunt for threats in Google Workspace.
Just What is “Proactive Forensic Data Acquisition” Anyway?
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It isn’t just anti-virus blind spots that hinder cybersecurity team efforts to safeguard organizational assets from threat actors. Veteran incident management analysts will tell you many detection tools also have blind spots that can lead to incomplete investigations and incorrect conclusions.
Are You Ready for a Slack Breach? 5 Ways to Minimize Potential Impact
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As Slack becomes a dominant part of the infrastructure in your organization, it will become a target for attacks and at some point, it is likely to be breached (just like any other technology that we use). The impact of that breach, however, depends on how we prepare for it, by limiting its potential propagation and allowing for fast response.