April 15, 2024 at 04:33PM
A cyberattack on a third-party telephony provider for Cisco’s Duo MFA service has raised phishing concerns for customers. The breach saw compromised employee credentials used to access and download SMS logs of specific users. Cisco urged affected users to stay vigilant and warned of the growing trend of social engineering attacks targeting identity security providers.
Based on the meeting notes, the key takeaways are:
1. A third-party provider handling telephony for Cisco’s Duo multifactor authentication service was compromised by a social engineering cyberattack.
2. The compromised telephony provider was breached on April 1, and threat actors used compromised employee credentials to access the system and download SMS logs for specific users within a certain timeframe.
3. The downloaded message logs contained phone numbers, phone carriers, countries, states, and metadata of sent SMS messages.
4. Cisco issued an advisory to affected users to notify anyone whose information was exposed and remain vigilant against potential phishing attacks using the stolen data.
5. According to Jeff Margolies, chief trust officer at Saviynt, this breach reflects a trend of social engineering cyberattack success and a focus on identity security providers.
6. Margolies emphasizes the need for identity security providers to enhance their systems’ security and for enterprise teams to assess the potential impact of a breach on their own cybersecurity posture.
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