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Dumping & Abusing Windows Credentials [Part-1]

Introduction: We all know how crucial our credentials are to us, these shared secrets are basically the access to our resources present on various platforms. The whole process of authentication and authorization is pretty much always dependent on these shared secrets which can be in the format of passwords, access tokens, keys, tickets etc. Today […]

Satyam Dubey September 13, 2020 Uncategorized

Credential stuffing Attacks on VPN: Serious Risk for Enterprise

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) systems are widely used by enterprises to provide secure remote access to their employees. VPN allows for easy access to the infrastructure, but it also opens up the corporate network to the internet. All VPNs use password based authentication which are susceptible to various types of attacks. Many enterprises use 2FA […]

Atharva Chincholkar September 4, 2020 Credential Stealing

Ever increasing Office365 Credential Phishing Campaigns

In the advent of widespread electronic communication we relied on a password for verifying the identity of a person. As it turns out, passwords are not secure enough to trust most information with. Two Factor Authentication to the rescue! right? Well, it’s not so easy. As systems have become secure, the attackers have shifted their […]

Atharva Chincholkar August 26, 2020 Credential Stealing

2FA Evading Malwares on the rise

Writing after a long gap. We were engaged with Black Hat, DEFCON 28 & Blockchain Village 2020 remotely in #SAFEMODE. This was a great experience. In my previous blog I had mentioned that in-mobile phishing apps stealing credentials are getting mainstream. Two weeks ago the media around the world was raked with the news of […]

Khush Bhatt August 12, 2020 2FA

Protection Against Credential Stealing Mobile Apps

In the recent news by TechSpot.com we have learnt that Google was ‘forced’ again, this time by Evina Research group, to remove 25 credential stealing apps from its Android play store with 2.34 Million combined installations. Out of the 25 listed applications, PureID Security Team analysed few, to learn modus-operandi of these apps. Abstract of […]

Khush Bhatt July 6, 2020 Credential Stealing

Making AWS Console Passwordless

In this blog, we are going to discuss one of the many (and we mean MANY) use cases of our passwordless authentication platform – PureAuth. We are working with a number of organisations that use AWS services. For contingency and serviceability reasons, the organisations share the access to AWS console with multiple admins. However, this […]

Ajit Hatti June 25, 2020 Passwordless

Passwords are like Plastic; Lets get rid of ’em

Passwords are at the foundation of security and access control ever since humans felt the need of securing resources and access to it. Passwords have been used and abused since millennium and the best documented example of this is “Open Sesame”. The surprising fact is even after millennium passwords are ubiquitous, and mean anything but […]

Ajit Hatti May 31, 2020 Uncategorized

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