You have been warned, by the FBI no less, that 2FA bypass attacks are surging — get prepared now if you are in the transportation sector or supply chain.
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a cybersecurity alert, you would be well advised to pay attention and take action. Whether that’s involving. And ransomware is the subject of this latest, critical, warning from the FBI. This time involving the Scattered Spider threat group which has made headlines after taking responsibility for multiple retail sector attacks including that against Marks & Spencer in the U.K. which is estimated to have cost the high street chain at least.
Specifically, Scattered Spider looks to bypass mutli-factor authentication, commonly referred to as MFA or 2FA, by using various methods to get those help desks to “add unauthorized MFA devices to compromised accounts.”alongside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published in 2023 in response to what it described as “activity by Scattered Spider threat actors against the commercial facilities sectors and subsectors.
The FBI told me that it is currently actively working with aviation and industry partners “to address this activity and assist victims,” and urged anyone who thinks their organization may have been targeted to contact their local FBI office. In the meantime, beware of anyone asking for unauthorized 2FA devices to be added to accounts and follow established security processes and procedures to the letter, no matter what the person making the request may say.
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