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2.11 Authentication threats

T111-Phish

Tricking user to reveal his authentication credentials through phising attack that poses a real looking web page to solicit user's access credentials. This could be created through

  1. DNS manipulation

  2. Cross site scripting

  3. Inappropriate insertion of content in legitimate site

  4. Containment of legitimate site in illegitimate frame

See also PII version of threat: T108-PhishPII.

T112-SocEng

Social Engineering, talking users to revealing access credentials.

See also PII version of threat: T109-SocEngPII.

T113-SnoopCred

Network eavesdropping to record credentials.

T114-KbdLog

Keyboard logger or other malware to record credentials.

T115-Malware

Credential theft, e.g. copy private key, using malware.

T116-Theft

Physical credential theft.

T117-Dict

Dictionary attack on password

T118-Brute

Brute force attacks of simply trying out all credentials.

T119-Cookie

Cookie replay attack. Use previously recorded cookie in context where authentication did not happen. Also arises if expired session cookie is allowed as a factor in authentication, resulting stronger factor not being demanded.

T1110-Lure

Luring users to do stupid things like

  1. Visit web sites that phish or contain malware

  2. Install malware and troians

  3. Voluntarily give out credentials or PII


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