Month: April 2024
Executive Summary Like coral reefs teeming with a variety of life, web applications are “colony creatures.” They consist of a multitude of independent components, running in separate environments with different operational requirements and supporting infrastructure (both in the cloud and on premises) glued together across networks. In this report, we examine that series of interacting…
Read MoreEver wonder what security professionals see as their main barrier to achieving a strong application security posture? We wondered that, too, so we asked them. As part of F5 Labs’ first annual Application Protection Report, F5, in conjunction with Ponemon Institute, surveyed security professionals on a slew of security-related topics. In answer to this particular…
Read MoreMost don’t, according to BuiltWith, a site that tracks the technologies websites use. Based on its latest data, a paltry .2% of sites on the Internet include CSP headers. Digging further, 8.4% of the Quantcast Top 10,000 have used CSP headers. Which sounds better until you do the math. That’s only 840 sites. By…
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“It’s highly likely that the absence of multi-factor authentication allowed attackers to circumvent the security measures of UnitedHealth Group’s [Change] Healthcare unit,” Aleem said. “Initial reports suggest that the attackers remained undetected in the environment for over a week and conducted lateral movement.” Aleem added: “It’s probable that the attackers left some traces, or ‘breadcrumbs’,…
Read MorePotential Attacks and Impact We stumbled upon the issues with cellular IoT devices during our “Hunt for IoT” research of devices that were infected by Mirai. Attackers know how to exploit these systems and are actively monitoring them. Sierra Wireless, one of the largest manufacturers of cellular IoT devices, issued a public statement describing how…
Read MoreBetteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that explains that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”1 Back in March 2017, I asked “Will Deception as a Defense Become Mainstream?” No, deception hasn’t become mainstream yet. But, here and there, deception does poke its fingers into the…
Read MoreAttack Destination Ports The following ports in order of prevalence were targeted in the Singapore attacks: 5060 — clear text Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) 23 — Telnet remote management 1433 — Microsoft SQL Server database 81 — Alternate web server port for host-to-host communication 7547 — TCP port used by ISPs to remotely manage…
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A zero-day vulnerability in CrushFTP was exploited in the wild against multiple U.S. entities prior to fixed versions becoming available as the vendor recommends customers upgrade as soon as possible. Background On April 19, CrushFTP published an advisory for a zero-day vulnerability in its file transfer tool which bears the same name. CVE Description CVSSv3…
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The National Police Agency in South Korea issued an urgent warning today about North Korean hacking groups targeting defense industry entities to steal valuable technology information. The police discovered several instances of successful breaches of defense companies in South Korea involving the hacking groups Lazarus, Andariel, and Kimsuky, all part of the North Korean hacking…
Read MoreWith each entity, process or service that moves from the physical world into cyberspace, there is a corresponding transformation to the threat landscape. Digital transformation doesn’t just change the business model or the supply chain dynamic. It also introduces significant new threats that go beyond monitoring web traffic and securing networks. Those threats take a variety…
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