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When Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote The Social Contract in 1762, he argued that only humans possess sovereign power, and that they alone may choose which freedoms they surrender in exchange for the benefits and stability of government. Now, for the first time in more than a century, we are debating amending or rebalancing aspects of the…
Read MoreThe IcedID malware, also known as Bokbot, is a banking trojan first discovered in 2017 that steals credentials by tricking browser functions into redirecting traffic. It is a stealthy, fileless malware with anti-sandbox capabilities. Previously, F5 Labs analyzed IcedID decompression methods for web injecting relevant files into a target list. This is a much deeper…
Read MoreMS-ISAC ADVISORY NUMBER: 2023-134 DATE(S) ISSUED: 11/14/2023 OVERVIEW: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an…
Read MoreCredential stuffing is a type of cyberattack that uses credentials obtained from previous breaches to take over existing accounts on other web or mobile applications. This is a type of brute force attack that relies on the fact that many people use the same usernames and passwords on multiple sites. For a more in-depth description…
Read MoreInteresting and innovative technology is disrupting the financial services market in a good way. Open Banking is one such initiative that can put the customer’s data to use to serve the user’s needs while also extending financial services to populations with no previous access to banking services. The positive impacts of Open Banking are leading…
Read MoreCompanies like Uber, Airbnb, PayPal, and others with platform business models have flourished in the past few years by matching up service providers (such as restaurants and drivers) to consumers and hiding the complex, behind-the-scenes processing (like payments) from users The rapid adoption of this business model has brought it into the cross hairs for…
Read MoreIntroduction F5 Labs education articles help you understand basic threat-related security topics. At the most fundamental level, IT security is about protecting things that are of value to an organization. That generally includes people, property, and data—in other words, the organization’s assets. Security controls exist to reduce or mitigate the risk to those assets. They…
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APIs and Sectors As more APIs are published, both by large enterprises who want to make their data more available (such as Google) and by smaller, industry-specific organizations hoping to generate value, some interesting industry patterns are also emerging. Of the organizations for which we had sector information, social networking organizations made up the largest…
Read MoreThere’s something undeniably compelling about a good myth. Maybe that’s because a dose of escapism does our brain good, and it’s fun to spend a few moments wondering about deadly alligators populating the New York City sewer system or Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen head waiting to be brought back to life. But while those myths…
Read MorePassword login attacks, especially credential stuffing attacks, are still one of the most common cyberattacks on the Internet. F5 Labs and Shape Security extensively looked at the patterns and trends associated with credential stuffing in the 2021 Credential Stuffing Report. In part 2 of this series on credential stuffing tools and techniques, we dive deeper…
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