Do you know bot attacks are turning from bad to worse? Legacy defenses are showing their age. We gear up for this year’s cybersecurity awareness month with the new challenger – sophisticated bad bots.
With a threat landscape expanding at an accelerated pace, it is next to impossible for any organization to even keep track of and monitor the volume, frequency, complexity, and breadth of the attack techniques and tactics out there. But to effectively tackle threats and protect mission-critical assets, the knowledge of these common attack techniques, tactics, detection, and mitigation is critical. This is where MITRE ATT&CK is especially useful.
Recent years have witnessed a sharp surge in DDoS attacks, and the cost of attack is also steadily increasing. SMEs spend, on average, $120k per attack. As more and more businesses move to the cloud, it is essential to be aware of the risks associated with DDoS attacks. The cost of DDoS attacks can affect your company’s bottom line as it can shut down its infrastructure, applications, communications, and other vital services.
Newer OpenSSL vulnerabilities are identified regularly by genuine security researchers or come to light as zero-day vulnerabilities when exploited by threat actors. While patching the bugs and OpenSSL vulnerabilities are important, organizations cannot wait for and rely just on patches to protect their websites. They need to be proactive in identifying and securing these vulnerabilities before attackers can find and exploit them.
From making contactless payments on mobile payment apps and viewing paperless menus to contact tracing Covid-19 cases, QR (Quick Response) codes are everywhere and in popular usage. This ubiquity and convenience have also made QR codes popular and lucrative targets for cybercriminals who leverage malicious QR codes to illegally gain access to confidential information, spread malware, or steal money.
Hundreds of thousands of websites and applications are targeted and attacked every day. SANS institute finds that 60% of cyber attacks have targeted web apps. Most web applications have urgent and critical vulnerabilities. Automatic vulnerability scanners are geared toward evaluating the security posture of the organization. Do you think your automatic scanner alone can cover all aspects of security assessment?
Cyberattacks have become more sophisticated, and they have the potential to cause severe disruption to service availability and financial loss to businesses. According to Gartner, IT downtime costs businesses $5,600 p/minute on average. For every business with an online presence, being able to serve user requests and deliver content in a secure, reliable, and speedy manner is critical. This is where content delivery networks (CDNs) come in.
Attackers have begun using new malware to gain an initial foothold onto compromised networks and systems in recent campaigns. What started as a Trojan malware called Qbot in 2007 has now evolved into Qakbot with new tricks. Qakbot has been active since it was first discovered and continues to threaten financial institutions and individual bank customers. This multi-purpose Trojan malware is designed to steal banking credentials such as login information and passwords.
Almost a year ago, Gartner predicted that API attacks would be the most frequent enterprise attack vector in 2022. Strengthening API security is more critical today than ever and must be at the core of cybersecurity strategy to prevent API exploitation. To make matters worse, the lack of API visibility weakens core security principles. More organizations don’t have an accurate inventory of APIs, and it is not surprising for 30% of APIs to be unknown.
