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The Week in Cybersecurity: MFA shortcomings paved the way for Cisco breach

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MFA’s shortcomings paved the way for Cisco’s data breach

Security Week reports that Cisco released a security incident notice for a data breach they detected on May 24, 2022, sharing key details about the incident. Expectedly, the company shared its side of the story just days after cybercriminals published files allegedly stolen from Cisco online. In Cisco’s technical blog post detailing what happened, they believe that the attackers targeted a single employee’s personal Google account, allowing the attacker to harvest the employee’s Cisco credentials from their synced passwords. Once the attackers gained access to the employee’s Cisco account, they were asked to complete multi factor authentication (MFA). 

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