FISA

A highly advanced phishing campaign has emerged, targeting Gmail’s massive user base of over 3 billion by leveraging legitimate Google services to evade standard email defenses. The attackers are using OAuth-based applications and exploiting DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) validation techniques to craft messages that mimic genuine Google security alerts—effectively slipping past traditional security filters and even multi-factor authentication (MFA). These phishing messages are cleverly disguised as critical security warnings, such as notices about legal subpoenas or urgent account issues. Because the emails are cryptographically signed and technically legitimate, they land directly in users’ inboxes with no spam or phishing warnings, often appearing in the same conversation thread as real messages from Google. The phishing mechanism directs recipients to fake Google Support pages hosted on sites.google.com —a trusted domain—rather than the legitimate accounts.google.com authentic...

While IT executives understand the essential role privileged access management (PAM) solutions play in their organization’s overall security strategy, they’ve also continued to ask their PAM administrators to do more with less resources. To meet these additional asks, PAM admins have automated routine PAM tasks using scripts. PAM automation scripts can significantly lessen the burden on PAM admins and enable organizations to scale PAM usage across their entire enterprise. 1- Why Are PAM Automation Scripts So Powerful? A PAM admin’s daily responsibilities typically revolve around the lifecycles of privileged users in their organization and require high levels of privilege. For example, when a privileged user joins the organization, the PAM admin has to add them to the right safes and grant them the necessary permissions they need to perform their privileged tasks. If a user leaves an organization, all that access has to be revoked to ensure the organization remains secure. These process...