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In the dynamic landscape of modern web applications and organizations, access control is critical. Defining who can do what within your Cloudflare account ensures security and efficient workflow management.

ZeroFox warns that phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offerings are increasingly including features to bypass multi-factor authentication. “In 2023, ‘in-the-middle’ techniques are some of the most frequently-observed methods used to gain access to MFA-secured networks,” the researchers write. “They enable threat actors to intercept or bypass MFA protocols by stealing communications without the victim’s knowledge.

A new report uncovers the scope and sophistication found in just one cybercrime vendor’s business that has aided credential harvesting and impersonation attacks for the last 6 years. Normally when we talk about a Cybercrime-as-a-Service malware, toolset, or platform being behind a string of attacks, we rarely know anything more than the malicious tools that were used.

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered yet another attack that leverages legitimate web applications to host attacks in order to bypass security scanners. One of the easiest ways for a security solution to spot a phishing attack is to evaluate the webpage a malicious link takes the recipient to.

Recent findings in a SpyCloud report shows companies are starting to recognize and shift their priorities to defend against ransomware attacks, but the use of infostealer malware still has a high success rate for cybercriminals. According to SpyCloud's analysis, 76% of infections that preceded these ransomware events involved Raccoon infostealer malware.

The hospitality sector is seeing a new wave of phishing attacks. These new attacks are more plausible because they begin with compromised credentials and move to fraudulent emails sent from within a trusted network. The compromised systems are legitimate booking sites; the victims are the guests. Akamai, which has described the trend, outlines a three-step attack chain.

According to CSO the fines incurred for data breaches or non-compliance with security and privacy laws, for only a handful of companies, has cost $4.4 billion. The global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 million, a 15% increase over 3 years (IBM). The challenge for organizations is how to safeguard sensitive information while adhering to the law, but without compromising innovation. Cyber threats loom large, affecting businesses in every industry.

Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the fifth and final part of the series, and it will teach you to handle credentials and secrets management best practices for securing cloud-native applications. Every organization has their way of managing credentials. In the past, with legacy application architectures, this was a bit more manual and arduous.

Now generally available, Splunk Edge Processor supports syslog-based ingestion protocols, making it well-equipped to wrangle complex and superfluous data. Users can deploy Edge Processor as an end-to-end solution for handling syslog feeds such as PAN logs, including the functionality to act as a syslog receiver, process and transform logs and route the data to supported destination(s).