![]() In many companies, for instance, logging on to email also gives you access to other services such as Zoom, GitHub, or other systems you use a lot. Only requiring 2FA for initial login, then allowing some sort of “single sign-on” system to authenticate you automatically for a wide range of internal services.Some 2FA systems may offer you a “remember me for X days” option, for example. Doing full 2FA only occasionally, such as requesting new one-time codes only every few days or weeks.Typical 2FA exemptions, aimed at reaping most of its benefits without paying too high a price for inconvenience, include: To be fair, many or most of the services you use, probably including your own employer, generally do something similar. We’re guessing that’s because LastPass, in common with most companies and online services, doesn’t literally require 2FA for every connection where authentication is needed, but only for what you might call primary authentication. Unfortunately, as you can read above, two-factor authentication (2FA) didn’t help in this particular attack. There’s not an awful lot left in this paragraph if you drain out the jargon, but the key phrases seem to be “compromised endpoint” (in plain English, this probably means: malware-infected computer), and “persistent access” (meaning: the crooks could get back in later on at their leisure). While the method used for the initial endpoint compromise is inconclusive, the threat actor utilized their persistent access to impersonate the developer once the developer had successfully authenticated using multi-factor authentication. He threat actor gained access to the Development environment using a developer’s compromised endpoint. ![]() N unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account.Ī follow-up announcement about a month later was similarly inconclusive: However, the company strongly urged users to set up two-factor authentication to bolster security and required those who access their LastPass account from new devices or IPs to authenticate through email.Popular password management company LastPass has been under the pump this year, following a network intrusion back in August 2022.ĭetails of how the attackers first got in are still scarce, with LastPass’s first official comment cautiously stating that: LastPass also shared that there is no need to change individual passwords used in various accounts stored in the user vaults. It is also confident that the strong encryption methods employed by the company will make it difficult for attackers to crack the compromised encrypted master passwords. However, this incident separates itself from the previous one as the company is now fully aware of what was compromised. LastPass suffered a similar breach in 2011. Over the years, we have been and continue to be dedicated to transparency and proactive measures to protect our users.” The LastPass team refrained from going into more details of the hack as investigations are still ongoing with the help of authorities and third-party security experts. Siegrest highlighted, “Security and privacy are our top concerns here at LastPass. How? To date, the password manager’s 72million-user base is given a strong master password for accessing different accounts and websites, which it stores in an encrypted LastPass user vault. Like its counterparts, it offers a key to a sealed gate that leads to one’s multiple accounts. LastPass is designed to make it easy to manage multiple passwords across several accounts. The common mistake lies in the users who apply easily-decipherable passwords and those that recycling these across different accounts and platforms, thinking that doing so makes things less annoying and tasking. ![]() Getting the passwords of online users is one of the easiest means to penetrate into and steal one’s identity, and has proven to be a cybercriminal goldmine. Siegrest furthered, “We are confident that our encryption measures are sufficient to protect the vast majority of users.” However, customers were urged to replace the master password used in accessing their accounts. ![]() While company CEO Joe Siegrist wrote that there was “no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken”, investigations have shown that the digital break-in has compromised account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes. LastPass divulged on Monday the discovery of “suspicious activity” in their network, which was seen and blocked accordingly last Friday. Password managers have made the tedious task of managing multiple accounts easier, and are used to boost online security by offering a single-and hopefully secure-repository of various login credentials sealed in by one strong master password. ![]()
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