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GUEST RESEARCH:  Rapid7 published its analysis of the Black Basta ransomware campaign, having observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by the group.

COMPANY NEWS:  Yubico has worked closely  with Microsoft for over a decade to keep businesses around the world and the Microsoft solutions they use both secure and phishing-resistant. Recognising the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA), Microsoft recently mandated that MFA be used by all Azure users – a critical move to require stronger authentication for end users to prevent phishing attacks.

GUEST OPINION: With the use of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) like passkeys growing more every day, it’s exciting to see the widely popular service, Microsoft 365, announce availability recently for passkeys on YubiKeys with mobile devices. This new Microsoft preview not only opens up support on iOS and iPadOS for Microsoft 365, but for a whole range of other Microsoft 1st party apps and also any other applications protected with Entra ID.

COMPANY NEWS: In an effort to protect the infrastructure and improve cybersecurity in the US, the Executive Order 14028 and the Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 took a strong stance to require phishing-resistant authentication for all federal agencies. The M-22-09 memo also specifies two standards-based authentication protocols that will satisfy the phishing-resistant requirements, Fido2/WebAuthn and PIV smart cards.