CISA warns of increased breach risks following Oracle Cloud leak

On Wednesday, CISA warned of heightened breach risks after the compromise of legacy Oracle Cloud servers earlier this year and highlighted the significant threat to enterprise networks. CISA said, "the nature of the reported activity presents potential risk to organizations and individuals, particularly where credential material may be exposed, reused across separate, unaffiliated systems, or embedded (i.e., hardcoded into scripts, applications, infrastructure templates, or automation tools)," even though "the scope and impact remains unconfirmed." "When credential material is embedded, it is difficult to discover and can enable long-term unauthorized access if exposed. The compromise of credential material, including usernames, emails, passwords, authentication tokens, and encryption keys, can pose significant risk to enterprise environments," it added. The U.S. cybersecurity agency also released guidance to mitigate the risks linked to the resulting credential leak, urging network ... Read full article.