February 1, 2024 at 08:20PM
Cloudflare revealed that suspected government spies infiltrated their system by using credentials stolen from the October 2023 Okta security breach. The intruders gained access to Atlassian and other systems, potentially extracting source code and sensitive information. Cloudflare, assisted by a security firm, is working to bolster their security measures following this cyber-attack.
Key takeaways from the meeting notes include:
– Government spies gained access to Cloudflare’s Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October 2023.
– The intrusion was detected on November 23, 2023, and the trespassers were ejected the following day.
– The attackers obtained one service token and three service account credentials through the Okta compromise, allowing them to access Cloudflare’s systems.
– Cloudflare failed to rotate the stolen tokens, enabling the thieves to gain access to its systems.
– The attackers probed Cloudflare’s systems, accessed its internal wiki and Jira bug database, and established a persistence presence in the Atlassian server.
– Cloudflare believes the attack was performed by a nation-state attacker with the goal of obtaining persistent and widespread access to its global network.
– Code Red, a company-wide remediation effort, concluded on January 5, 2024, but ongoing work continues around credential management, software hardening, vulnerability management, additional alerting, and more.
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