Tag Archives: brute force

Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones

Getty Images reader comments 54 with Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes. Dubbed BrutePrint by its creators, the attack requires an adversary to have physical control of… Read More »

PoC exploit released for Azure AD brute-force bug—here’s what to do

reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating Share this story A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially… Read More »

New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix

reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker’s actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them. A newly discovered… Read More »