OAuth

Attackers abuse OAuth apps to initiate large-scale cryptomining and spam campaigns

December 13, 2023

Attackers are compromising high-privilege Microsoft accounts and abusing OAuth applications to launch a variety of financially-motivated attacks. Abusing OAuth applications …

Attackers used malicious “verified” OAuth apps to infiltrate organizations’ O365 email accounts

January 31, 2023

Malicious third-party OAuth apps with an evident “Publisher identity verified” badge have been used by unknown attackers to target organizations in the UK and …

Attackers connect rogue devices to organizations’ network with stolen Office 365 credentials

January 27, 2022

Attackers are trying out a new technique to widen the reach of their phishing campaigns: by using stolen Office 365 credentials, they try to connect rogue Windows devices to …

United Kingdom’s MoD announces the results of its bug bounty program with HackerOne

August 4, 2021

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the conclusion of its first bug bounty challenge with HackerOne. The Ministry of Defence program was a 30-day, …

Dremio Cloud empowers self-service and interactive analytics on the data lake

July 23, 2021

Dremio announced its cloud-native SQL-based data lakehouse service, Dremio Cloud. Purpose-built for the cloud, Dremio Cloud makes cloud data lakes 10x easier, while delivering …

Countering threats: Steps to take when developing APIs

November 6, 2018

High profile data breaches resulting from faulty APIs continue to make headlines. In the last few months alone, T-Mobile’s data breach resulted in hackers stealing personal …

OAuth2.0 implementation flaw allows attackers to pop Android users’ accounts

November 8, 2016

Incorrect OAuth2.0 implementation by third party mobile app developers has opened users of those apps to account compromise, three researchers from the Chinese University of …

After two fixes, OAuth standard deemed secure

January 8, 2016

OAuth 2.0 is one of the most used single sign-on systems on the web: it is used by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, GitHub and other big Internet companies. A group of researchers …