Tag: lastpass

April 20, 2017

Design flaws in Lastpass 2FA implementation

As part of a Red Team engagement I found myself looking for a way to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in Lastpass. Unfortunately this happened before Tavis Ormandy reported multiple 0-days in Lastpass. Would have saved us so much time! Anyway, 2FA is an additional layer of security to protect user accounts from attackers that have already compromised your password. I mention this because it is key to understand the purpose of this post.

When you login into a service using your username and password, you will get an additional challenge before access is granted. Usually it is a 6 digit temporary code that changes every 30 seconds. Google authenticator, Authy and Toopher are just a few of the 2FA solutions Lastpass supports that are based on RFC6238 and RFC4226. There are other types of 2FA but these are the most common.

November 17, 2015

Even the LastPass Will be Stolen, Deal with It!

I am back from Amsterdam after presenting our research at Blackhat “Even the LastPass Will be Stolen, Deal with It!” together with Alberto Garcia. We had a blast at the conference and we got great feedback from the audience. Many asked for the video, slides, etc. so I though it was worth writing a post with all the details of our talk.

Motivation

During one of Alberto’s red team pentests, he gained access to several machines and found that all of them had files with references to LastPass. He came to me and told me it would be cool to check how LastPass works and if it was possible to steal LastPass credentials. 10% of our time is for research so we made that our small project.

We found how creds where stored locally and wrote a Metasploit plugin so he could use it to extract vault contents from all the compromised machines. Thanks to the module, he was able to obtain SSH keys to critical servers and the pentest was a success.

June 15, 2015

About today’s LastPass breach

Today, LastPass issued a security notice on their blog explaining that they detected some suspicious activity on their network. They believe that “LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised” but also that the encrypted passwords (the vault) was not accessed.

What does all this really mean? I found the security notice a little vague and I thought that it is worth writing a post about what the breach exactly means and what the attackers can do with the stolen data.

Based on the LastPass notice, attackers have the following:

Email addresses
Password reminders
Server salts
Authentication hashes

Let’s break it down and see what kind of attacks are possible…

September 18, 2014

A look into LastPass

As part of the time that my company offers for research, my good friend and talented hacker Alberto Illera (@algillera) and me decided to “checkout” LastPass.

Many of you may already know (or even use) LastPass. It is a pretty well known password manager that stores all your passwords in a “vault” and keeps them secure. Additionally, it can automatically populate the credentials for you when you visit a website in which your are registered making it easy to use more secure, random and unique passwords. You will just have to remember the master password that decrypts the vault and that’s all.

LastPass comes in many forms. As a browser plugin, as a mobile app or even as Webapp.

As you may agree, a service that stores all your passwords sounds like a cool target so we decided to have “A look into LastPass”, understand how it works, check if it really keeps our passwords secure and why not? Try to find vulnerabilities.