The disappearance of the Rockstar 2FA exploit service, while seemingly positive, has been overshadowed by the emergence of FlowerStorm, a new threat that may be an evolution of the previous attack. Security researchers warn that FlowerStorm, utilizing similar PaaS portals, poses a significant risk to Google and Microsoft users.
Security researchers have warned that the demise of the Rockstar 2FA exploit service isn't all good news—far from it, as here comes FlowerStorm, which could be the same threat that's evolved. What Google and Microsoft users need to know.The Demise Of Rockstar 2FA And The Rise Of FlowerStorm 2FA Bypass Attacks—What Google And Microsoft Users Need To Know, not least as that warning came less than a month ago.
Based on telemetry gathered by Sophos researchers,” the security outfit said, “it appears that the group running the service experienced at least a partial collapse of its infrastructure, with pages associated with the service no longer reachable.” This, the researchers were quick to point out, was not apparently down to law enforcement takedown action as is often the case. You might think, therefore, that reports of the death of Rockstar 2FA were a good thing. I’m not so sure, and nor is Sophos it would seem. So, while it’s not bad news that some of that Rockstar 2FA infrastructure, such as Telegram channels used for command and control or pages that return a HTTP 522 response currently, a connection timed out error specific to Cloudflare, that another threat has filled the void most certainly is. That new threat comes by way of something called FlowerStorm, and there are some strong signs that it might not be as new as it seems.‘Tipping Point’—Crypto Braced For $280 Trillion Price Bitcoin Reserve After Trump Picks, the principal threat researcher at Sophos X-Ops, Sean Gallagher, and Mark Parsons, a threat hunter for Sophos Managed Detection and Response, warned that “in the weeks following the disruption of Rockstar2FA, we observed a surge in the use of a similar set of PaaS portals that have been tagged by some researchers as “FlowerStorm”—the name coming from the use of plant-related terms in the HTML page titles of many of the phishing pages themselve
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