Tag: Threats

Identifying Trends in Recent Cyberattacks Web attacks vary quite a lot—by target, technique, objective, and attacker—which makes it difficult for a system owner to assess the instantaneous risk to their particular combination of systems until they’re attacked. To help defenders anticipate the risks they face, we analyzed several months’ worth of global honeypot traffic from…

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F5 Labs F5 Labs IoT Vulnerability Assessment of the Irish IP Address Space Vulnerability assessment of IoT devices in Ireland detailing the biggest threats, most at-risk and highly exposed devices. November 17, 2020 13 min. Source link lol

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“Data driven” is the new catchphrase that is taking businesses and all types of industries by storm. In short, to be data driven is to be rad, and for good reason. Data has become the most important commodity in digital transformation efforts because it differentiates facts from opinions. It helps organizations and teams to be…

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On Tuesday, December 8th, 2020, FireEye, a leading cybersecurity firm used by governments and companies for penetration testing and forensic services announced that it had been the target of an attack by nation-state actors “with top-tier offensive capabilities,” and that a suite of tools used by FireEye for penetration testing had been stolen. What do…

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In the fall of 2020, many countries began to require that travelers test negative for the new coronavirus before crossing their borders. As with anything of value, a black market soon emerged. Travelers could illicitly purchase forged negative COVID-19 test results and try to fake their way through the checkpoint. Goodness knows, we’ve already seen…

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Reasons for Credential Spills In some of the incidents, organizations were willing and able to disclose the reason credentials were compromised. While every incident is a little different, we’ve highlighted a few here that are particularly instructive (or just frustrating). In short, there’s no shortage of opportunity, even for unsophisticated threats. A Breach from Beyond…

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F5 Labs in collaboration with Effluxio researches global attack traffic to gain a better understanding of cyberthreat landscape. In this episode of regional threat analysis, F5 Labs researchers break down the data collected by our sensors on attacks targeting India from October 1 through December 31, 2020. Cyberattacks happen in many forms, but it usually…

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Accounting for the slight dip in 2019, password login attacks account for 32% of all reported SIRT incidents over the past three years. We also saw how they jumped in 2020, so we did a deeper dive into how these kinds of cyberattacks ramped up during the pandemic. Credential Stuffing Attacks at Financial Services Organizations…

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The IcedID malware, also known as Bokbot, is a banking trojan first discovered in 2017 that steals credentials by tricking browser functions into redirecting traffic. It is a stealthy, fileless malware with anti-sandbox capabilities. Previously, F5 Labs analyzed IcedID decompression methods for web injecting relevant files into a target list. This is a much deeper…

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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…

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