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A wide variety of organizations fall under financial services, including banks of varying sizes, credit unions, insurance companies, government-sponsored financial institutions, stock exchanges, investment funds, payment processors, consumer finance lenders, brokerages, and companies that service the financial sector. We’ll look at all of these and note the differences in the data, starting with the largest…
Read MoreCyberattack Incidents at Financial Services Companies Like payment processors, financial services companies are private companies that serve the financial sector by providing data processing for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions. They can perform loan analyses, credit ratings, check printing, data storage, or analytics. Basically, they provide any outsourced service except payment processing (the…
Read MoreAttackers are always on the lookout to compromise digital identities. A successful account takeover allows a cybercriminal to impersonate a genuine user for monetization purposes. Enterprises large and small have utilized various means to secure someone’s digital identity, and credentials are the starting point. F5 Labs 2021 Credential Stuffing Report indicates that 1.8 billion credential…
Read MoreThe title of this report is not a typo. “The State of the State of Application Exploits in Security Incidents” is a meta-analysis of several prominent industry reports, each of which covers the state of application security, hence the name, “the state of the state of.” This report is both an attempt to stitch together…
Read MoreThe two peaks appeared to be caused by the attackers targeting the company’s domain name, rather than a specific IP address. The customer uses a round robin DNS system with two IP addresses, each with a 90-second TTL (time-to-live). As the attackers’ DNS resolutions shifted with the round robin, for a brief period both IP…
Read MoreF5 Labs was honored to host two Howard University undergraduate students, Malaya Moon and Akosua Wordie, as part of a Summer Security Practicum program. These two students assisted F5 Labs staff with analyzing and classifying web sensor data, and they dived deep into attacks against South Africa from the first part of 2021. By doing…
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Creating an encrypted HTTPS website depends on a lot more than simply throwing a digital certificate at it and hoping for the best. In fact, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTPS misconfigurations are now so commonplace that in the 2021 OWASP Top 10, Cryptographic Failures now comes in second place…. Source link lol
Read MoreAlthough the attack scan traffic into the United States is in line with the proportion of the assigned IP addresses, most of the other countries are not. The extreme outlier that stands out is Malaysia, rising to second place in Q3 2021. Examining Attacks on Malaysia from China Since this is so unusual, we examined…
Read MoreYou may have heard about the log4j security vulnerability — one of the most widespread cybersecurity vulnerabilities in recent years. Here’s a non-technical explanation of it: What is it? It’s a vulnerability that was discovered in a piece of free, open source software called log4j. This software is used by thousands of websites and applications,…
Read MorePhishing is not the only method that attackers used against cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. As noted in the 2021 TLS Telemetry report, malicious Tor exit nodes were also used to strip SSL/TLS connections, which allowed attackers to harvest credentials to cryptocurrency exchanges. Investigating Attacker Methods Threat actors frequently refine their techniques to improve the success…
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