Credential 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…
Read MoreApply the stable channel update provided by Apple to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software)o Safeguard 7.1 : Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard.o…
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This is the second part of a two-part series based on firsthand research into pig butchering scams from the end of 2022 into early 2024. In this post, we delve into the types of investment scams perpetrated by pig butchers to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from victims, including in the form of cryptocurrency…
Read MoreSo How Good Are Sectors for Predicting Risk? Based on these analyses, it appears that the answer is “not bad, but it depends.” On one hand, we can identify specific patterns that seem to map to characteristics about those sectors. We already knew that the Retail Trade sector is heavily targeted by attacks that are…
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