Tag: Threats
Intro F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching application security. With the increasingly essential role of applications, one major question arises: If organizations don’t understand all the ways attackers can compromise their applications and exploit their data, how can they possibly defend their most critical assets? Join threat researchers Sara Boddy and Ray Pompon…
Read MoreIn 2018 we published our first Application Protection Report, which summarized trends and attack patterns for 2017 across multiple disciplines of information security and offered a big picture strategy for controlling application risk. We created that report in order to provide three things that we felt the security industry needs: a specific focus on application…
Read MoreCryptominers are frequently included in recent attack campaigns; if you would like to learn more about cryptominers, please check out some of our previous monthly attack campaign wrap-ups. Conclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic continue to rise in popularity. This has been fueled in part by the zero-day vulnerability found in…
Read MorePoor security is another clue that young novices are operating botnets. The Owari authors left their command and control (C&C) MySQL database wide open (port 3306), “protected” with both the username and password of “root.” Control of IoT devices is a highly competitive market, where rivals commonly DDoS each other. In one case, a competing…
Read MoreIn-App Testing Since the HSTS and HPKP protocols allow for genuine interception of SSL by trusted certificates, nothing can be done to warn end users that their communications are being intercepted. For those that need to inform their users of interception, in-app testing could be considered. By performing an additional SSL/TLS handshake, using Javascript within…
Read MoreConclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic are clearly on the rise, and F5 researchers anticipate this trend to continue. This has been fueled partly by the zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-2725)found in April 2019. Oracle WebLogic is used widely by large corporations, and the servers are resource-intensive. This attracts threat actors looking to…
Read MoreAPI Vulnerability Data The sensor network that our partner Lorkya maintains found only 0.1% of attack traffic was definitively looking for API vulnerabilities. However, this is probably better attributed to the limitations of the sensor network than any trends about API attacks. Loryka’s sensors primarily detect wide-ranging probes and reconnaissance campaigns where attackers are looking…
Read MoreThe next step in this process is to convert the decrypted and decompressed data file from binary into a human readable format. The following python snippet provides a regular expression that will roughly split the injects from one another: import re regex_res = re.split(‘[x00]{1}[x00-xff]{7}[x00]{2}[x01-xff]{1}’, data[7:]) The steps outlined here can be used on the different…
Read MoreThe US Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) has cited ransomware as “the most visible cybersecurity risk” attacking American IT systems. I think that’s a valid statement, since “most visible” doesn’t necessarily mean largest or most devastating, but it does still qualify ransomware as a significant threat. Indeed, it seems…
Read MoreIntroduction Ten months ago we asked a rhetorical question: will losses from cryptocurrency exchange hacks hit one billion dollars in 2018? Indeed, they did. Cryptocurrency theft is growing both in terms of frequency of attacks and breadth of targets. Attackers aren’t just cryptojacking and targeting exchanges. According to endpoint security provider Carbon Black, $1.1 billion…
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