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On May 21, 2024, Veeam revealed a severe flaw across its Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) web interface that enables an unauthenticated attacker to log into the web interface as any user. Officially designated as CVE-2024-29849, the vulnerability presents a major threat with a CVSS V3 rating of 9.8 (critical). VBEM is a web-based platform that allows administrators to oversee Veeam Backup and Replication installations through a web interface console.

APIs are crucial for modern digital businesses because they allow different software systems to communicate and exchange data seamlessly and they are foundational to how modern applications are built. However, they are also vulnerable to cyberattacks because they are widely used. To address this growing threat, organizations are increasingly turning to API protection solutions to protect their valuable data and ensure uninterrupted business operations.

Check Point Cybersecurity has issued hotfixes to address a zero-day vulnerability in its VPNs that has been exploited to gain remote access to firewalls and potentially infiltrate corporate networks. On 27.04.2024 (Monday), the company initially alerted customers to an increase in attacks targeting VPN devices, offering guidance on how administrators can safeguard their systems.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow your applications to talk to one another, like an application-to-application iMessage or Signal. If you’ve ever texted a message to the wrong group chat, you’ve created a situation that mimics what broken function level authentication does between users and applications.

In May 2024, new vulnerabilities have been identified in BIG-IP Next Central Manager, raising considerable security concerns. This discovery follows closely on the heels of a critical vulnerability revealed in April within Palo Alto's firewalls with enabled GlobalProtect feature, which permitted unauthorized command execution. These recent findings underscore the persistent challenges in ensuring cybersecurity defenses and prompt updates for security solutions themselves.

Dell recently issued a notice regarding a data breach that occurred on May 9, which has reportedly affected over 49 million customers across the globe. According to a report by BleepingComputer, Dell initiated the distribution of notifications cautioning its customers that their personally identifiable information (PII) had been compromised in a data breach.

As you may have seen in the news, a hacker stole 49 million customer records from Dell. The attack wasn’t novel or sophisticated. Instead, the attacker used a business logic flaw and an API to scrape 49 million records from Dell. How did they do it? Here is the attack flow. The attacker registered for an account within the Dell ecosystem to be a reseller/partner. They weren’t going to be. But Dell didn’t perform any checks, and within 48 hours, the attacker had a valid account.

GenAI has the promise to transform companies, and introduce a lot of security risk. One of the main benefits of GenAI relates to the modernization of apps. Most companies are going through some type of app modernization. They are responding to the market by delivering better and better experiences to their customers. This is largely done through the experience people have with their apps. This ranges from banking to healthcare to travel and everywhere in between.