As organizations have transitioned from legacy IT infrastructure to cloud-native, ephemeral modern infrastructure, the needs of how privileged access is handled have shifted, too. Modern infrastructure presents unique challenges that legacy Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools, originally architected for more static environments, weren’t designed to handle. In this post, we explore why characteristics of modern infrastructure require a modern approach to PAM.

On November 19, 2024, Palo Alto Networks disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS software, CVE-2024-0012 an Authentication Bypas, and CVE-2024-9474 a Privilege Escalation. These vulnerabilities enable attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access and escalate privileges to root level. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities, observed in the wild, has been attributed to a targeted campaign dubbed Operation Lunar Peek.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a holistic security model that integrates both networking and security functions into a single, cloud-native architecture. SASE security combines secure network access, SASE cloud security and zero-trust technologies to create a unified approach to protecting the enterprise networks of today. SASE can be extremely useful especially for organizations adopting digital transformation and remote work. Some of the SASE benefits are.

The e-commerce world was recently shaken by the discovery of a vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento, two of the most widely used e-commerce platforms. Dubbed "CosmicSting" and designated as CVE-2024-34102, this vulnerability exposes millions of online stores to potential remote code execution and data exfiltration risks.

Even though cybersecurity is always changing, phishing attacks are still a threat that is getting worse. The goal of these attacks is to get people to give up private data like passwords, financial information, or company secrets by using social engineering tricks. As technology has improved, phishing schemes have grown more complex in 2024. They now use convincing methods to target both people and businesses. According to new studies, 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email.

In September 27, 2024, Okta disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting their Classic environment that created a concerning security gap in identity protection. The vulnerability, active since July 17, 2024, allowed attackers with valid credentials to bypass application-specific sign-on policies by simply modifying their user-agent string.

Welcome to Corelight Labs' latest hunt! This blog continues our tradition of analyzing trending threat groups and TTPs on Any.Run and writing detectors for them, providing the community with open-source threat intelligence, and acting as a tutorial in engineering threat detections with Zeek Script.