F5 Labs

The title of this report is not a typo. “The State of the State of Application Exploits in Security Incidents” is a meta-analysis of several prominent industry reports, each of which covers the state of application security.

Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) allows two parties to authenticate each other during the initial connection of an SSL/TLS handshake.

Examining three breach and compliance failure cases under the New York Department of Financial Services’ 23 NYCRR Part 500 cybersecurity regulation.

A detailed examination of application risk and cybersecurity attack chains, broken down by sector.

From spoofing device fingerprints to hijacking authenticated sessions, attackers use a range of techniques to bypass multifactor authentication.

MITRE ATT&CK, a framework that uniquely describes cyberattacks from the attacker’s perspective, is quickly being adopted by organizations worldwide as a tool for analyzing threats and improving security defenses.

A review of 2018-2020 cyberattacks at brokerages, investment funds, payment processors, and financial services organizations as well as API security incidents and open banking.

A look at cybersecurity incidents at banks, credit unions, insurance companies, government-sponsored financial institutions, and stock exchanges.

The 2021 version of F5’s continuing analysis of the application security threat landscape explores ransomware, payment card theft, and account takeover.

A behind-the-scenes peek into the hidden world of human click farms.

Denial-of-service attacks are increasing and becoming more complex. We look at how attackers are attempting to bring down services around the world.

Latin America’s cyberattack landscape saw continued focus on port 5900 and the targeting of common web vulnerabilities.

How cybercriminals use credential stuffing attack tools OpenBullet and MailRanger to bypass CAPTCHA, compromise mailboxes, and reset passwords.

How platform business models are at an increased risk of fraud when two or more separate parties collude.

We dig into the credential stuffing attack tool OpenBullet and look at configuring combolists, proxies, parse tokens, and check blocks for launching attacks.

Even with 99.95% efficacy of network security controls, bad actors can still monetize fraud. Security convergence is the way forward in surviving digital fraud.

Three years of reported security incidents shows continued growth in denial-of-service and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing.

Passwords are inherently flawed, and not just because of credential stuffing. The future of authentication looks very different, but there are steps you can take now to control risk.

TA551 (AKA Shathak) deploys the IcedID banking trojan using COVID-19 in Microsoft Word documents containing a malicious macro that drops an installer.

The tale of The Three Little Pigs can teach us more than you think about cybersecurity risk.