Tag: Threats
This is the full-spectrum, director’s cut version of the Application Protection Report, untrammeled by petty concerns like brevity or toner prices (for the shorter version, please see our Summary). This report pulls together the various threats, data sources, and patterns in the episodes into a unified line of inquiry that began in early 2019, picking…
Read MoreThere is no cease-fire in the continuing battle against malware. Qbot, a banking trojan malware active since 2008, is back in business with new functions and new stealth capabilities. In the past 12 years, this malware has gone by a handful of names, including Qakbot and Pinkslipbot. Despite all the variations and evolutions, Qbot’s main…
Read MoreThe Application Protection Research Series is an ongoing project at F5 Labs that provides an overarching view of the application security landscape. While detailed analyses of specific attacks are critical for defenders to adapt to emerging techniques, it is easy to overemphasize tactics over strategy if those kinds of analyses are the only thing we…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: F5 Labs is a threat research and analysis team within F5 Networks. As a relatively small team of researchers, evangelists, and writers who produce vendor-neutral threat-related content, we look forward every summer to the opportunity to bring in a college intern to help us with special research and data analysis projects. In the…
Read MoreCredential Stuffing Causes Outages It’s not hard for attackers to find poorly defended web logins. Many sites often have only a basic web application firewall (WAF), or nothing at all. Many WAFs do not detect or defend against credential stuffing attacks. In general, WAFs are designed to block application attacks, malformed requests, and web exploits.…
Read MoreThese kinds of incidents make it clear that the development teams behind these applications assumed that APIs were difficult to find. In all likelihood, they were prioritizing both application functionality and development speed over security. In other words, they “just had to get it to work.” This is a practical illustration of our thesis from…
Read MoreThe sight of empty supermarket shelves during the COVID-19 pandemic brought home the fragility of our food supply chain. We can all see the importance of ensuring the security of the farming and agriculture industry. However, farming is becoming increasingly automated. This means new cybersecurity risks are emerging to stand alongside traditional risks like the…
Read MoreHidden Malware, Crouching Ransom One reason ransomware can appear to strike so quickly is because you only notice it once it’s too late. “Just because they’re in your network doesn’t mean you’ll see them,” notes Peck. “Ransomware and attackers often linger long before the ransomware goes active and begins encrypting your data.” The ransomware may…
Read MoreJWT brings performance to identity assertion and is being widely adopted, but it’s also garnering the attention of cybercriminals. Source link lol
Read MoreDuring this period, a campaign of blackmail attempts claimed to be from the Russian advanced attacker Fancy Bear. Their attack opened with a small DDoS attack as a demonstration, followed by a payment demand for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pay up or they will “make sure your services will remain offline until you pay.”…
Read More