Tag: Phishing
Figure 16: QA Injection alert, “Page Injected!” Conclusion Panda’s expansion beyond traditional banking targets is following the trend we noticed during the 2017 holiday season.5 This is the first campaign we have seen targeting cryptocurrency sites, but it’s a move that makes sense, given the popularity of cryptocurrency. This act of simultaneous campaigns targeting several…
Read MoreExecutive 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 MoreIn July 2018, F5 released its first annual Application Protection Report based on the results of an F5-commissioned Ponemon survey of 3,135 IT and security practitioners across the globe. Additional research conducted by Whatcom Community College, University of Washington Tacoma, along with data from White Hat Security and Loryka served to make this one of…
Read MoreYou might have been scammed without even knowing it. A 2016 NYU study1 found that many scammers used affiliate programs from background check companies to earn a commission every time they referred someone to the program. So, let’s say you found a rental you were interested in on Craigslist and you emailed the owner. The…
Read MoreImagine you’re a military leader. What if I offered you a weapon to cleanly take out enemy infrastructure with minimal incidental civilian deaths? It has near-infinite operational reach and it’s highly stealthy. Oh, and it’s cheap compared to say, strategic missiles, which cost about a million or so dollars apiece.1 Well, have I got a…
Read MoreData from the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC) echoes the F5 SOC findings and shows that dramatic increases in shopping activity actually continue into January, making retailers a likely target of attackers.1 In a 2018 survey of R-CISC members, respondents expressed their concern, identifying phishing, credential compromise, and account takeover (ATO) among their top…
Read MoreThe most common initial vector for phishing attacks is the fraudulent email. A well-crafted phishing email entices the victim to click on a malicious link that then takes them to an attacker’s site. Once that happens, that site must appear to be as authentic as possible. Images, fonts, layout, styles, and even the URL will…
Read MoreWhat is Certificate Transparency? Certificate Transparency (CT) is a method for publicly logging, auditing, and monitoring the creation of new SSL/TLS (digital) certificates. Originally a concept from Google, CT is now an open standard under RFC 6962, albeit still an experimental one. Originally designed to enhance the veracity of Extended Validation (EV) certificates, many certificate…
Read MoreGozi “banking” trojan continues to shift its targets beyond banking as it employs client-side and server-side evasion techniques via time-tested web injection. Source link lol
Read MoreIntroduction This year we are releasing our 2019 Application Protection Report as a series of short, tightly focused episodes. This helps ensure we provide timely threat intelligence that our readers can add to their own threat models and use to prepare appropriate defenses and responses. Last episode, we focused on PHP’s continuing run as one…
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